acme web browsing (RE: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9)

acme web browsing (RE: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9)

[Stephen Parker]

At one point (in the reasonably distant past) I had a similar
system working under wily.  Web pages were rendered by lynx
which would produce hyperlinks like this [1].  A script running
under wily would accept b3 on the numbers and open a new window
showing the file if html, or open an image viewer if an image.

I think I found it quite comfortable at the time, but no longer
have a copy.

stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob pike [mailto:rob@plan9.bell-labs.com]
> Sent: 23 December 2000 14:41
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9 
> 
> 
> For my rudimentary and highly unfinished Acme web browser,
> building on the work of Jeff Brown, a summer student here last
> year, I just put the links down, again in square brackets, where
> the anchor would close, like this: [http://go.here.com].
> 
> The file name for the window is the URL.  Lots of other details
> remain experimental.
> 
> It's fine for simple text, such as 
> 	http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
> but worthless for image-map pages.  Much more
> dedicated work is needed before you'd want to live with
> it.
> 
> -rob
>