From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: martin@familie-kielhorn.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Subject: [9fans] Webbrowser Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:04:04 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4d9ed27c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, in Linux I do use links (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/) as my standard browser. It does not seem to depend on huge libraries as the mozilla rendering engine, or kde but it does display images, tables and has some enough javascript support (for mie). Would it be usefull to port it to Plan 9? I cannot estimate the time this would take. Occasionally I use the browser "i" which was available with "9fs sources", but it crashes after 2 or 3 pages. What would deserve more support -- the developement of "i" until it does not crash anymore or the port of "links". I do not think that I am experienced enough to begin that. The only thing I programmed in Plan 9 so far is a very small vector drawing program. I will try to approximate lines, that I drew with a mouse (or with a tablet in vmware). In the future I will find some way to represent those with bezier curver, b-spline or NURBS -- it should be as "sodipodi" but more usable and much more portable. I consider this project as solvable -- a whole web browser will probably be much more complicated, probably I will never manage to write my own portable web browser.