From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <86y62r9xno.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:30:10 +0200 Message-ID: From: Gorka Guardiola To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016364eced666b89304a28d3d30 Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames Topicbox-Message-UUID: ddd44b6e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016364eced666b89304a28d3d30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, andrey mirtchovski w= rote: > 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 (an= d 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 I=B4ll shut up now :-= ). G. --0016364eced666b89304a28d3d30 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, andrey m= irtchovski <m= irtchovski@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://l= inks.twibright.com/download/

that would be minimal effort compared to everything else.


abaco is much more functional and stable than the (a= ctual) links port
never was, we used it for a while, but abaco has compl= etely replaced
links now. The binary is much smaller too and
it suppo= rts 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 wr= ites/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
java= script implementation is in C and highly doable though very very boring.
With that, CSS and
some small work (like chaging the fonts for inpu= t 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 w= on't, so I=B4ll shut up now :-).

G.

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