From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:33:21 +0000 From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo Message-ID: <86r98osk9e.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: , <006f01bff176$dab42fe0$62356887@HWTPC>, <86g0p6ynra.fsf@gollum.esys.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] mothra Topicbox-Message-UUID: e834a8aa-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lyndon Nerenberg writes: > 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. Hear! Hear! If one wants Netscape or IE, they're available. If one wants a tool that's geared toward the distributed sharing of information in the context of a useful structure, something new and interesting is needed. The current XML trend is not it. SGML is closer (and actually is what XML merely claims to be), but it has its flaws, and does not appeal to anyone who hasn't already figured out that they need it. A new flavor of web browser, in the spirit of Plan 9, might be a very good vehicle for the investigation of alternative ways of disseminating information. -tih -- The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them. --Eric S. Raymond