From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Links for Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:49:19 +0900." <9361953d7548ddfdaa152a2c8f8087b8@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1252.1071456524.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:44 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a32f12dc-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > I agree with Dave. The browser is disgusting. It looks ugly > > on the outside, and it's even uglier on the inside, in many ways. > > About the only thing it has going for it is it can display web > > pages better than mothra. > > I feel it's cute on the outside. This is depend on what the feeling > one has. I feel it cute, because it has no decorative excess menu-like > things at first, very simple. As far as outside appearances go, I wish it used fonts that fit in more with the rest of Plan 9. That's my main gripe. The X11 fixed fonts (which it seems to have hard-coded in various sizes) have always been ugly. I do think that Links is a demonstration that we could manage to get a small web browser up and running without too much code. I'm not too optimistic though, since I fear style sheets and the like will soon obsolete any such attempt just like tables obsoleted mothra. > On the inside, I have not take a look, so I request you to be more > specific on this point. If not, you may be counted as accusing them. If you take a look, you'll see that I don't need to be any more specific. Everything about the code is inscrutable. Russ