Re: Re: [dev] Suckless operating system

2010-06-14 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Developing a suckless web browser engine is impossible, because one will have to implement all the non-standards thing in the current Web, right? OK, a theoretical question then. In 2010 we live in the times when even Microsoft tries hard to dump IE6, so only IE7 may still force web-masters to w

Re: Re: Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

2010-05-30 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
> You can use Plan 9 from User Space in OpenBSD which provides probably > the best UTF-8 support of any tool set. > uriel Whoa. That kinda blew my mind away for a while. But then again, it's not gonna help me get UTF-8 in console, ncurses apps and xterm (I had UTF-8 issues in Xterm the last tim

Re: Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

2010-05-29 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
> well I'm on openbsd. ifconfig is used for everything. Well, that changes pretty much everything. OpenBSD's ifconfig is probably a unique thing among other BSDs (AFAIK) and is nothing like Linux's ifconfig. And it's much simpler to use than iwconfig+wpa_supplicant in Linux. However, there are

[dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

2010-05-29 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Hi, all.I wanted to ask for an advice. Being a laptop user, I have to swtich between wireless networks quite frequently, and often I have to connect to the new networks. So, I am in need of a tool that would allow me to automatize the whole routine: provide me with a list of networks, allow me

Re: [dev] (x)HTML-based office suite? (aka suckless word processing solution-2)

2009-10-18 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Yes, you got it totally right. But why do you believe that html would be on par with proprietary formats? I mean, is there any possibility that html produced by markdown (or similar languages) interpreter won't be displayed correctly in most of browsers (including IE)? I thought it's basic and s

Re: [dev] (x)HTML-based office suite? (aka suckless word processing solution-2)

2009-10-18 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Well, spreadsheets weren't the only point. Besides, if we take spreadsheets as a presentation tool (and not as an actual calculation solution, in which case several people should be able to work with the same formulas) - why not? If you are sending a paper where the text is accompanied by some d

Re: [dev] (x)HTML-based office suite? (aka suckless word processing solution-2)

2009-10-18 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Oh, ok. It's just I've checked http://lists.suckless.org/dev/0910/index.html - that's why I was alarmed. > Ilya Ilembitov dixit (2009-10-18, 17:35): > > Oops, sorry for those weird symbols. I forgot to check the language in > > which my name will appear on the list

Re: [dev] (x)HTML-based office suite? (aka suckless word processing solution-2)

2009-10-18 Thread Ilya Ilembitov
Oops, sorry for those weird symbols. I forgot to check the language in which my name will appear on the list. > I believe I made some progress with my little research concerning suckless > word processing. > Basically, I realised that things get much easier as soon as we realize that > there is