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Date: Wed,  7 Mar 2007 04:50:51 -0800
From: Kenneth Long <kelong_2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
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What is the next road map step for plan9?


--- C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> wrote:

>
>Java/J++/javascript/VisualBasic/FlashPlayer/blahblahblah/AndIDontKnowWhi=
chElse
> crap... is it really worth it???
>=20
> there are interesting things to play with in there,
> but for a browser, just vncv to something
> where it still won't work but at least you'll have
> someone else to blame.
>=20
> for someone's school project, i tried to use some
> javascript from a famous place, and every browser
> behaved
> differently with it (eg, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and
> IE7 was VERY different) and none of them was quite
> right
> if you cared about (say) display and printing both
> working on the same browser, and producing
> the same content.  i got some usable results but the
> experience was disconcerting, if unsurprising.
>=20
> we could have used the carbon credits saved by not
> expelling the hot air to discuss this so often to no
> real point,
> to provide a huge Linux Firefox and Opera server
> somewhere on the Internet (eg, Al Gore's house)
> for use by Plan 9 people when need a fancy browser
> and they haven't got a server of their own nearby.
>=20


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