From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ross Evans Message-ID: References: <20010102192314.0CA33199EB@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:54:12 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 47d7d5a2-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "William Staniewicz" wrote in message news:20010102192314.0CA33199EB@mail.cse.psu.edu... > I wish web design professionals would take a few steps > back from Flash and frames. I hate to sound "minimal", but > I would be very with just a Lynx type browser if I could get the > content I really need and not the other stuff that just takes > alot of time to get and sort out. > > Bill > > Im very glad this thread started, I have been playing with Plan9 for some time. I too find the current web *browsing* paradigm less than satisfactory. I have been working on some ideas for an application for plan9, that allows one to navigate information with the fluidity of current point-and-click browsers. I envisage an application that supports *full* HTML 4.0 and a good portion of CSS 1/2. However, this support would not form part of a rendering engine, rather some kind of translation system, that would take the interpret the various tags attached to the document, then layout the page in a information centric way. Currently, the idea I have is hazy at best, I know the kind of thing I want, but it is hard to describe. I don't want to take all the fun out of webpages by any means. Images etc do have a place, I just don't think that the inability of platform X or Y to display a certain aspect of a webpage should make that page unusable to them. Im looking for a solution that gets around this. Lynx is 1 way of doing this, but IMO it takes things too far. I want to retain images and text layout, but I want a paradigm that is more suited to plan9