From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <20160218142648.GA3839@polynum.com> <20160218202711.GA1588@polynum.com> <20160219122221.GB506@polynum.com> <01651573-0C4B-48C3-9B75-1D5AD66597E8@gmail.com> <20160219132118.GA755@polynum.com> From: Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen In-Reply-To: <20160219132118.GA755@polynum.com> Message-Id: <43103CF2-52A7-4674-8FA8-CA19457B9954@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:07:52 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] NetSurf (browser) and Duktape (javascript) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85d8197e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I am aware, I work with web, but no JS will work before the DOM implementati= on is complete, and most is utterly useless without styling. It's a better p= lace to start. One can also work without JS for a lot of pages that aren't t= witter bootstrap based, or fetching content dynamically. The first is an iss= ue, but the latter not that much... Yet. Best regards, Kenny Levinsen > On 19. feb. 2016, at 14.21, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: >=20 >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 02:00:47PM +0100, Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen wrote= : >> Styling/proper rendering might be more interesting than JS. >=20 > Unfortunately, today, there are a number of sites that require > javascript. I don't speak about overloaded media sites. But for example > bank or even governemental sites. >=20 > It is unfortunate to have, for some common tasks, the need of > "something else" (and due to the size and complexity of Mozilla > and Chrome, "something else" can be a pretty restrictive choice). >=20 > If I'm not mistaken, Russ Cox says somewhere that he was happy working > under Plan9 but that he ported the Plan9 utilities to other systems when > he realized there was no hope that someday Mozilla will run on Plan9... > So he still uses Plan9 utilities, but not under Plan9... > --=20 > Thierry Laronde > http://www.kergis.com/ > http://www.arts-po.fr/ > Key fingerprint =3D 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C >=20