On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>wrote:

> perhaps we should revisit the links port. i see they have a 2.3pre2
> version released couple of weeks ago so it's not stale:
>
> http://links.twibright.com/download/
>
> that would be minimal effort compared to everything else.
>
>
abaco is much more functional and stable than the (actual) links port
never was, we used it for a while, but abaco has completely replaced
links now. The binary is much smaller too and
it supports https with factotum, uses webfs, etc.

I think it only really needs CSS and javascript to be functional enough (and
plugins, but
that is another matter).

Any browser anyone writes/ports needs javascript and
that is (mostly) independant of anything else and needed, so putting some
effort there is probably good whatever the path taken. Spidermonkey
javascript implementation is in C and highly doable though very very boring.

With that, CSS and
some small work (like chaging the fonts for input forms)
abaco could be made into a simple, powerful well
integrated (pre html 5, but that is another different level of complexity)
browser for Plan 9. This are my two cents,
but I don't have time for that and probably won't, so IŽll shut up now :-).

G.