Re: [9fans] mothra

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com>]

>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Trickey <howard@research.bell-labs.com> writes:

    Howard> Separating things into pieces is easy, but doesn't help
    Howard> much if the pieces are hard.

I'm surprised to hear you say that. IMO modularization is something
you want when dealing with complex programming tasks. At the very
least it simplifies the verification process for the functional
components.

    Howard> And don't say "it doesn't have to be exactly the same as
    Howard> Netscape and IE" until you've had users.

I spent a year developing our webmail product, and have more experience
in this regard than I ever want to be inflicted with again. I'm not
interested in reimplementing IE or Netscape. If I need those products,
they are available to me elsewhere. What I am interested in is seeing
how I can take advantage of Plan9 to create a (possibly new) method of
viewing the web. I'm not interested in Java(script), Macromedia Flash,
or any of the other Whizzo Butter(tm) gizmos. My life is no less
complete for the lack of being able to view web pages that require that
sort of support. I haven't enabled Java(script) in any of my web
browsers for a couple of years now. (Well, except for when I was
doing webmail development. They're never enabled when I'm doing
general browsing, and I never use webmail as a consumer.)

--lyndon