From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sah@borf.com Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:52:45 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser In-Reply-To: <3975D73D.1661143B@mail.usask.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: e68a1f9e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ... of course, if we never rewrite anything from scratch...how will we ever find out what we did wrong, the first time? Rewriting apps isn't simply an exercise in futility. It provides the opportunity to incorporate new concepts, sans hacking old code. On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andrey Mirtchovski wrote: > "Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote: > > > For Chrissakes, if you insist on rolling all your own software you'll > > never catch up. Wouldn't it be better to have a functional Web > > browser on your preferred development platform than to have to keep > > switching platforms every time you need to access the Web? > > It was a joke.. :) > > Anyway, I am morally oposed to Gnome for I love simple things and detest eye candy > (unless it's a game or a screeensaver, which are *supposed* to be pretty :) > > yes, you are right, there is simply no way all the software for plan9 could be written > from scratch, but on the other hand if the most importand and frequently used pieces > of software are imported from other OSs, we would hardly be able to stick with the > plan9 look and feel... (I like vi, I use vi, I am productive with vi, I wouldn't want > to see vi ported to plan9, simply because it doesn't fit too well with the system...) > > Ah, but what I say does not matter much, since I am a newcomer :) Let me learn more > about P9 before making more statements like the above... > > regards: andrey >