Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

There is a webfs with a very rudimentary cache in my contrib dir, it
is a bit ancient so is missing some more recent fixes (some of which
are not integrated into the standard webfs anyway).

It certainly made things *much* more usable, but webfs needs to be
seriously reworked if it is ever going to be really useful, it was
never quite finished, and its design doesn't really fit how the web
works and ends up producing lots of duplicated functionality between
the browser and webfs, I tried to fight this by moving its url parsing
code to a library that abaco and hget could reuse, but there is only
so much time to waste in the hell of web technologies...

In the end I think linuxemu is the way of the future...

uriel

On Jan 24, 2008 11:05 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Ok, my 2¢ worth.
>
> I turn flash off on all the browsers I use, I find it irritating and
> slows things down. All I seem to lose is a few animated jokes and a load
> of adverts - maybe its the websites I visit.
>
> I agree linuxemu is the only practical way to get a "fully compliant browser
> experience".
>
> Having said this I shall contadict it, If abaco had css (en route) and if
> webfs has a good cache then I would be fine for 95% of my needs. In its
> present form I use it for (say) 40% of the time. This is actually more to do
> with its performance (much of which appears to be the lack of a cache).
>
> I vote 1 for abaco for most stuff, and firefox under linuxemu for accessing my bank.
>
> I want my cake and eat it.
>
> -Steve
>