Re: [9fans] What's missing?

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[David LeBleu]

My primary issue with Charon is that it appears to be unsupportive of XML or XHTML.  Otherwise, I have had few other concerns.  Of course, there is so much to learn/understand about the features and differences between plan9 and Inferno I can hardly complain . . 

:-)



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>>> baldwin@vitanuova.com 04/23/01 12:11PM >>>
> This just means we have to write more and more usable applications for plan9.

Yes.  Anothy, what are the apps you find a need to use on Unix?

As for me, the only one is Netscape (ugh).  Our latest Charon
on Inferno does a good enough job for most sites that Netscape
is actually my backup browser.  But it would be nice to not
have to use Netscape at all.  Even so, my Netscape is actually
running on a Solaris box far away; over DSL running VNC is just
fine; over dialup it gets the job done, with some impatience.

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[Boyd Roberts]

> My primary issue with Charon ...

Charon is a joke.  it's awk meets bitblit.

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[anothy]

//p9 needs nothing.  any of the  crutches i need
//are on a box i can get to..
	-and a bit later-
//PLAN9/Bandwidth

yeah, i'd agree. the trouble is i'm missing the "Bandwidth"
part of that formula, so i'm interested in making Plan 9
pick up as much of the slack as possible.
-α.

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[rob pike]

I tried to engage the Opera people and got almost exactly nowhere.

-rob

[9fans] What's missing?

[baldwin]

> This just means we have to write more and more usable applications for plan9.

Yes.  Anothy, what are the apps you find a need to use on Unix?

As for me, the only one is Netscape (ugh).  Our latest Charon
on Inferno does a good enough job for most sites that Netscape
is actually my backup browser.  But it would be nice to not
have to use Netscape at all.  Even so, my Netscape is actually
running on a Solaris box far away; over DSL running VNC is just
fine; over dialup it gets the job done, with some impatience.

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[David Rubin]

baldwin@vitanuova.com wrote:
>
> > This just means we have to write more and more usable applications for plan9.
>
> Yes.  Anothy, what are the apps you find a need to use on Unix?
>
> As for me, the only one is Netscape (ugh).  Our latest Charon
> on Inferno does a good enough job for most sites that Netscape
> is actually my backup browser.  But it would be nice to not
> have to use Netscape at all.  Even so, my Netscape is actually
> running on a Solaris box far away; over DSL running VNC is just
> fine; over dialup it gets the job done, with some impatience.

Has anyone looked at other browsers like opera? Konquerer, I think, is based on
Mozilla, so I guess it wouldn't be a good candidate for a porting, but maybe
there are some good non-Netscape browsers that can be ported easily.

But is it that difficult to add the missing functionality to Charon which makes
discussions about porting or supporting other browsers relevant?

	david

--
If 91 were prime, it would be a counterexample to your conjecture.
    -- Bruce Wheeler

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[David Rubin]

Mike Acar wrote:

> > Has anyone looked at other browsers like opera?
[snip]
> Opera's not open source, so you'd have to talk Opera Software into porting it.

Yeah, I overlooked that. How smart of them...

	david

--
If 91 were prime, it would be a counterexample to your conjecture.
    -- Bruce Wheeler

Re: [9fans] What's missing?

[Michael Collins]

I said to myself the other night.  "p9 needs nothing.  any of the 
crutches i need are on a box i can get to.."

HardeHar.

thanks.

sorry for the bw waste, but i love it.

PLAN9/Bandwidth

baldwin@vitanuova.com wrote:

>> This just means we have to write more and more usable applications for plan9.
> 
> 
> Yes.  Anothy, what are the apps you find a need to use on Unix?
> 
> As for me, the only one is Netscape (ugh).  Our latest Charon
> on Inferno does a good enough job for most sites that Netscape
> is actually my backup browser.  But it would be nice to not
> have to use Netscape at all.  Even so, my Netscape is actually
> running on a Solaris box far away; over DSL running VNC is just
> fine; over dialup it gets the job done, with some impatience.


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