Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9

[Randolph Fritz <randolph@panix.com>]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:28:14 GMT, Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>	wouldn't a mothra port be the deal?
>
>richard miller did this.
>i've tried mothra and charon, and
>neither satisfies me.  there's
>got to be a better way than 
>the netscape and ie model,
>but i don't know what it looks like.
>

I have some thoughts.  Quite possible worth what you pay for them.
Maybe. :-)

Build it on top of a decent language, to begin with--the Python team's
Grail project might be an instance of that.  They ran out of resources
before they finished it, so I suppose one could say the quest
continues.

Configuring the Plan 9 plumber to work with URLs would probably be a
very good idea.  (If this has already been done, mmmmph mmmph
mmmph--sound of person with foot in mouth.)

I think IE 5 and later have some good UI ideas--most notably the
two-column browser with the left-hand column devoted to navigation.
This has been incorporated (in more awkward form) in Mozilla, aka the
browser that ate Tokyo. :-)

SVG (Scalable Vector Grapics) will probably improve the display of
layout-intensive pages, as well as provide an open format for the
interchange of architectural and engineering drawings.  Also more
annoying advertising, sigh.

It would be interesting to use XML as primary text format in a UI.

Randolph

I did QA on mothra at NCD.  I was not amused...then. :-)