From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:27:45 +0000 From: Christopher Browne Message-ID: References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser Topicbox-Message-UUID: e47fc316-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Stephen Harris would say: >Someone was asking about Gecko, which is the layout/rendering engine >used by Mozilla. > >There is a small, working web browser thinly built around Gecko alone, >without the Mozilla baggage. It's called Galeon and is starting to >become popular. It's at http://galeon.sourceforge.net > >Supposedly supports all the latest web standards. > >It's about 250k for the compressed source. Don't know about the >libraries it requires. It may be 250k of compressed source for Galeon, but note that: "It requires Gnome and MOZILLA M16." Those two "code bases" represent a _mite_ more than 250k of code, and I suspect that the Plan 9 port would be, um, challenging... -- cbbrowne@ntlug.org - It's hard to tell if someone is inconspicuous.