On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:29:58PM -0200, Daniel Camolês wrote: > When the choice you have is between 500k or 2 million lines of code, > it hurts to call anything suckless. I think the web needs a serious > reboot. It started out as a markup language for presentation-only, and > then it was morphed through a convoluted series of additions into an > application distribution plataform. The browser is the dumb terminal > of our days. Today the web browser is the most awful piece of software > I need to use. I dream with the day when the Internet will be built > around a model simple and generic enough that a reasonable programmer > will be able to code a complete "browser" in a month of work or so. > > Am I alone? Is there any hope out there?
I remember reading something Russ Cox said about plan9port being created because it would be easier to port all the Plan 9 userland to Unix than to port a full-featured web browser to Plan 9.
