From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Webbrowser In-Reply-To: <20030205101903.32b1cb5a.9list@broster.co.uk> Message-ID: <20030205101029.I30814@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: <20030204140101.U21311@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <3E406D1F.6090101@null.net> <20030205101903.32b1cb5a.9list@broster.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:12:48 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f28b784-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ian Broster wrote: > Anyway, bloat aside, Mozilla is available for multiple platforms, so the > designers have clearly been able to separate platform dependent issues > from the browser itself. A port of mozilla may be an easier (don't read > `easy') way of getting a modern graphical browser running natively on > plan 9. > i was just reading this paragraph when your message arrived: " 'Even though some of us used to work on Mozilla, we have to admit that the Mozilla code is a gigantic, bloated mess, not to mention slow, and with an internal API so flamboyantly baroque that frankly we can't even comprehend where to begin. Also did we mention big and slow and incomprehensible?'". sounds nice, doesn't it? :) article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/29183.html now that gcc is available for plan9 one may attempt to compile mozilla, but i haven't seen anyone here crazy enough... andrey