On Sunday, May 01, 2011 08:15:12 PM erik quanstrom wrote: > > The freedom _from_ an extra, extraneous, alien environment. [1] > > but it's a web browser. it's already an alien environment. :-) >
Man I had hunch you would say that. :) Inferno is an alien environment too, but you don't run linuxemu to run linux-hosted inferno - you run a native inferno directly on plan 9. I'd like to run a "more native web" directly on plan 9. The idea is to remove the "middle-man". That's the 'extra' part of the "extra, extraneous, alien" I had referred to. (and, forget about the "browser" part of the "web" for now - I think web _browsers_ suck worse than the web itself - I'm just concerned with the web _engine_ for now) > > The freedom _for_ building a variety of native front-ends. > > > > The freedom _for_ integrating with existing native libraries. > > what's the advantage here? > The same basic advantages you'd get for running native plan 9 inferno rather than running inferno for linux under linuxemu (if that's even possible). Or largely the same reasons I prefer to run the vim ported from ape, than a vim running in a vnc window or under linuxemu (again, if that's even possible - I haven't yet played w/ linuxemu), but a purely native vim would be even better; even though vim may be considered alien. > i don't want to build a front-end to > a web browser, > I imagine there's a large host of things on crontrib that you yourself have no personal interest in developing with or using. > and i don't really care if it links against libc or whatever. > And I don't really care to learn and write limbo for inferno. Thus, for me, linking against libc on plan 9 is considered more optimal. On Sunday, May 01, 2011 08:39:02 PM ron minnich wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:11 PM, errno <er...@cox.net> wrote: > > etc. > > Just wondering if you have looked at webfs. > I've browsed the source, a few months ago; when I first felt the lack of a more current-standards-conforming web experience. (I keep saying "web experience" so as not to tie myself to "web browser".)
