From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E4147A8.3000108@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Webbrowser References: <20030204140101.U21311@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <3E406D1F.6090101@null.net> <20030205101903.32b1cb5a.9list@broster.co.uk> <20030205101029.I30814@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:19:36 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f325d34-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 andrey mirtchovski wrote: >" 'Even though some of us used to work on Mozilla, we have to admit that the >Mozilla code is a gigantic, bloated mess, ... > Obviously, this was my first assumption. I use the damn thing and just the mail user agent is a hideous, badly thought out mess. The browser doesn't render some pages well or at all (well, I guess 'at all' is value of 'not rendered well'). But I digress. Anyone wanting to port it to Plan 9 (or anywhere else) is _bound_ to have their work cut out for them. Port Mozilla or write a browser from scratch? No thanks.