From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:22:50 +0000 From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3975BBCD.A2AEE114@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <3974AD4E.8312954A@mail.usask.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5d14816-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Andrey Mirtchovski wrote: > AFAIK it is tightly coupled with GNOME (they advertise it as a gnome web browser) > which means it exploits the gtk+ libraries. A freebsd port is in the works (if > not completed already) but a plan9 one would require gtk to be ported... And then > we may just as well start porting the entire gnome bloatware... :P GTK+/GLIB would be useful on Plan 9 as part of a porting environment, e.g. in APE. GTK+ can certainly be implemented without GNOME. For Chrissakes, if you insist on rolling all your own software you'll never catch up. Wouldn't it be better to have a functional Web browser on your preferred development platform than to have to keep switching platforms every time you need to access the Web?