> Starting Goal: a modern, standards compliant web engine library for Plan 9
As others have pointed out that's pretty hard to define, but in
the current web world, you can cover a surprisingly large fraction
of sites if you have good JavaScript and CSS support. Running
Java in the browser isn't
> There's one other possibility that I've thought about. Inferno's
> browser charon is more capable than it might appear. It has
> some degree of JavaScript support. The main thing I've noticed
> when trying to use it for some day-to-day browsing is that
> it lacks CSS and could use some work on
On Sunday, May 01, 2011 04:56:40 PM blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Starting Goal: a modern, standards compliant web engine library
> > for Plan 9
>
> As others have pointed out that's pretty hard to define,
>
Agreed, I did try to make an attempt at a modicum of a definition to
work from, bu
> I suspect netsurf might actually be better to work from than charon,
> if only because netsurf is already written c rather than limbo, and
> has already been ported to many platforms.
unless i've completely misunderstood, brian is suggesting to run charon
in plan 9-hosted inferno.
- erik
On Sunday, May 01, 2011 06:44:42 PM erik quanstrom wrote:
> > I suspect netsurf might actually be better to work from than charon,
> > if only because netsurf is already written c rather than limbo, and
> > has already been ported to many platforms.
>
> unless i've completely misunderstood, brian
> I'll risk venturing an opinion on that approach:
>
> Running a plan 9 hosted inferno is essentially another take on the vnc or
> linuxemu workarounds. It won't provide the same freedoms and benefits
> of a native library/engine/framework.
what freedoms are those?
- erik
On Sunday, May 01, 2011 07:38:43 PM erik quanstrom wrote:
> > I'll risk venturing an opinion on that approach:
> >
> > Running a plan 9 hosted inferno is essentially another take on the vnc or
> > linuxemu workarounds. It won't provide the same freedoms and benefits
> > of a native library/engine/
> The freedom _from_ an extra, extraneous, alien environment. [1]
but it's a web browser. it's already an alien environment. :-)
> The freedom _for_ building a variety of native front-ends.
>
> The freedom _for_ integrating with existing native libraries.
what's the advantage here? i don'
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:11 PM, errno wrote:
> etc.
Just wondering if you have looked at webfs.
ron
Just to add some more confusion to the mix, there was a port of an early charon
release from limbo to c, called 'i' - the single letter.
This worked to the point of working like a buggy abaco (perhaps I am unfair but
that is what it feels like), Its on sources (in contrib/extra I think).
I'am not
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 lin
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