From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:42:24 +0000 From: Ralph Corderoy Message-ID: <8ll2nm$n36$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> References: , <3974AD4E.8312954A@mail.usask.ca>, <3975BBCD.A2AEE114@arl.army.mil> Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Topicbox-Message-UUID: eaa1104c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, > For Chrissakes, if you insist on rolling all your own software you'll > never catch up. Wouldn't it be better to have a functional Web > browser on your preferred development platform than to have to keep > switching platforms every time you need to access the Web? Are there two separate issues here? One, new and innovative ways of representing HTML-based information available via HTTP. Two, wanting exact Netscape or Internet Explorer functionality *today* so you can access those PITA sites that don't function without JavaScript du jour, etc. For the second Douglas has a point, we'll never catch up with NS and IE since they're playing catch up with W3C who are in turn trying to catch up with NS and IE's latest `extensions' :-) What about considering a means of running NS or IE on a separate `server' box and pulling or pushing that across to Plan 9? Initially, something like VNC (Virtual Network Computer) might suffice. More complex would be allowing a single NS to be the `render server' for multiple users. Icky perhaps, but it would free Plan 9 users from the hungry hoards that want IE and allow them to research new, different, models. Ralph.