Re: mothra ignores <br>, funky text entry

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 02:07:40 +0200
cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:

> mothra will never reach that level. mothra doesnt know about the
> boxes. it sees a html page as a list of rectangles that can have
> text or images or panels in it. it has no box model, no idea of
> the nesting hirarchy of stuff, no dom.
> 
> the little things that got added to mothra where simple and well
> within its capabilities.
> 
> tables, divs, css, js... all that will never work with the data
> structures mothra uses.

Ah. Speaking purely hypothetically, if you've got a list of boxes
what's to prevent putting them side by side sometimes? Or even within a
grid, but then the grid would have to be coded, I guess.

> 
> so shouldnt we spend our time writing a real webbrowser that can
> potentially do all these web things? i dont want to. i want to
> spend *less* time trying to emulate the braindamaged stuff coming
> from traditional operating systems and concentrate more on what
> we can do with plan9.
> 
> mothra is still good for lots of things. even with its flaws and
> somtimes it is usefull especially because it does *not* implement
> some major web feature :)

Yeah. Just the other day I was thinking of stripping font color support
from Abaco. :)

-- 
This is obviously some strange usage of the 
word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.