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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:21:47 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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And then we can have raw images as filenames, raw images in plain  
text, text as the stroke style for a line, etc. I'd like raw images  
in text - it makes mpictures and converting to PostScript unnecessary.

According to the wiki page on TODO, it says htmlfmt needs knowledge  
of tables. With this, we could just put the HTML parser and rendering  
in acme/rio and avoid htmlfmt.

Unfortunately, we're about 20 years too late. People have Microsoft  
Word and they don't need an operating system with useful features,  
automated backup at no additional cost, and a wealth of  
documentation. I doubt I'll purchase Office:mac 2008 for my iMac, as  
I use troff now. If you disagree, raise your virtual hands.

Instead of debating on what's the right thing to do to add innovation  
about 10+ years old to a system that should've had it 10 years ago,  
let's focus on how to innovate for the future, shall we? It's not  
that I don't like starting debates (I did start this one), but now my  
original idea sounds unnecessary.

I just wanted Konqueror so I could browse the whole web, but with  
someone adding CSS to abaco and JavaScript in charon, can we merge  
them or add JavaScript to abaco or something? I don't know anymore.  
If you need me, I'll be adding tables to htmlfmt.