From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ben Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <002e01c22f43$122a6dc0$0100a8c0@335400>, <004201c22f4b$6b5aca40$bf356887@bl.belllabs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] The "i" browser Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:00:56 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5201bf8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 howard@research.bell-labs.com (Howard Trickey) wrote in message news:<004201c22f4b$6b5aca40$bf356887@bl.belllabs.com>... > I did a port of the inferno browser (charon) to > plan 9, and called it "i". Unfortunately, other > obligations have prevented me from getting all > of the bugs out. > > Does anyone out there want to take up the guantlet > and finish the job? I put the sources in > the public source tree, under contrib/i , and > would be happy to correspond with, and lightly > collaborate with, anyone willing to solidify the port. > > The current state is that it often works, but > there is some kind of bug in the table layout code > (and doubtless, other bugs). And perhaps the biggest > problem, for a modern browser, is that it doesn't > do javascript at all. The port was done before > Javascript support got added to charon. > > - Howard Trickey > howard@research.bell-labs.com I'm very interested. I've you've read any of my other posts, you'll have noticed that I'm looking for a good browser under Plan 9. Unfortunately, I can't access the public source tree, as I can't dial out (for now). (Any latest development on the Lucent WinModem drivers?) Anyway, would you be so kind as to e-mail me a copy of the sources? Thanks much! Ben Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Bath Computing Services, UK Keywords: Cc: -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk