Re: [9fans] Links for Plan 9

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

rog@vitanuova.com writes:
> and to those that have used charon and found it frustrating, what
> were, to you, the most frustrating features (or lack of)? i certainly
> have a few of my own, but i'm interested to find out other people's
> priorities.

In no particular order, I found it: (a) didn't handle common javascript
errors gracefully.  In most cases, it should probably try to soilder
on.  instead, it'd just give up on ecmascript processing.  (b) when
last I looked at it, I couldn't run it in its own window, independent
of wm/wm anymore.  (c) it loaded pages slowly, if at all.  I often
found myself crossing my fingers that any given page would load.  (d)
often times it rendered things incorrectly.  The javascript problems
were my biggest frustrations, as I recalled.  Too many things depend on
leniency in interpreting javascript, and charon was too strict.  I gave
up on it as a browser long ago.

	- Dan C.