From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Randolph Fritz Message-ID: References: <20001224021200.5227D199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:36:07 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 403c80c2-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:28:14 GMT, Russ Cox 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. :-)