From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:53:09 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20110916010220.5e3adb54@kolari.ethans.dre.am> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (OSX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2289e656-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But doing the lguest bit might be fun for someone. No doubt, but please don't sully the idea of doing something for the sheer pleasure of learning with the idea that life without the web isn't worth living. (Wait, that just might have solved the problem ...) On a slightly related note, I did spend a bit of time poking around the W3C source code archives. If someone consumed enough mescaline there's a chance the core libraries could be ported, leading to a lynx-like native client. And a graphics-free browser is still a (mostly) viable option these days. I'm living on the boat right now, behind an insanely expensive 3G data stick, so I run Firefox with graphics turned off. I've only had to enable graphics for one site that simply won't function without its GIF buttons. I don't think there's any hope of getting away without Javascript anymore, though :-P --lyndon