From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:05:54 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jason Catena To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636284daad61bb9046f5f252d Subject: Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2b26056c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001636284daad61bb9046f5f252d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:48, C H Forsyth wrote: > >I hope the services I want to use (will) have a non-browser API (eg > Twitter). > > in fact, since a browser must ultimately send messages, it's not clear > what a `browser API' would look like. Many AJAX and image-map interfaces wouldn't mean much outside a graphical interface that displays the pretty pictures and maps how the user interacts with them back to the server. Evernote, for example, would be easier to render to the user and mount as a filesystem than Google maps. I'm just wondering whether it seems enough without good support for the latter kind of (currently) browser-based interaction. --001636284daad61bb9046f5f252d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:48, C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova= .com> wrote:
>I hope the services I want to use (will) have a non-b= rowser API (eg Twitter).
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in fact, since a browser must ultimately send messages, i= t's not clear
what a `browser API' would look like.=A0

Many AJAX and image-map interfaces wouldn't mean much outside a graph= ical interface that displays the pretty pictures and maps how the user inte= racts with them back to the server. Evernote, for example, would be easier = to render to the user and mount as a filesystem than Google maps. =A0I'= m just wondering whether it seems enough without good support for the latte= r kind of (currently) browser-based interaction.


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