From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:34:30 +0000 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Message-ID: <86g0p6ynra.fsf@gollum.esys.ca> References: , <006f01bff176$dab42fe0$62356887@HWTPC> Subject: Re: [9fans] mothra Topicbox-Message-UUID: e7eef9c2-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>>>> "Howard" == Howard Trickey 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