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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:48:38 +0000
From: Wladimir Mutel <mwg@alkar.net>
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Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:25:22AM +0000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>> 
>> Surely somebody must be trying to port Mozilla to Plan 9?

> Hopefully not.  Maybe Opera, but does one really need Netscape's
> near-operating system effort just to present a few pictures?

	Gecko rendering engine is small and almost suitable for embedding,
	they said. Near-OSness of Mozilla5/Netscape6 is just a result of
	poor decomposition. But it seems 'Gecko' itself could be adopted
	under Plan9. To be something like 'page' but for viewing html.

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