From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4638CE43.6020906@conducive.org> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 01:45:39 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] THX hell References: <13426df10705011142s943fa15leee215f5bbe0ab4c@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10705021000w3c3becfdl4c6de69d404846c6@mail.gmail.com> <509071940705021028q6d8c811bxb01b2bdfce78adbc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <509071940705021028q6d8c811bxb01b2bdfce78adbc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 56779ef4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Anthony Sorace wrote: > you might talk to the Opera people. in addition to having a PC-type > browser that runs on multiple platforms, they have slimmed-down > versions that run on various embedded platforms. they've got a > smallish version that runs on the Nokia N800 (a linux-based handheld > device) which has decent performance and does ajax (i'm not sure what > standards or test suites apply, but google mail and one other ajax-ish > site i use work, which is all i really know about). > > they're not open source and i believe you'd have to get their approval > for redistribution; not sure how that squares with any religious > convictions. > anthony > Opera is certainly worth a look, IMNSHO. We've just stated shedding Firefox and SeaMonkey in favor of Opera. Opera used to wear its feet on the wrong legs, UI-wise, but has become more configurable, as well as better at handling the all-too prevalent badly-written websites. It builds faster and lighter from the *BSD ports tree than SeaMonkey or Thunderbird, does not seem have their memory leaks or resource appetite on OS X PPc versions. Current license is not overly onerous, but a chat with them is certainly in order. Bill