Quick attempt at damage control, hope it's not too late: On Friday, May 06, 2011 03:32:26 PM Comeau At9Fans wrote: > [...] errno pulls this off. [...] something like FireFox working on Plan 9. > Let's say that the executable is fully functional >
People may take it you literally mean: Firefox-on-Plan-9. nonono I tried real hard to avoid that misunderstanding. And, "fully functional" := css 2.1/3, ecmascript 3rd/5th (w/ dom), html 4.1/5, ssl/tls On Sunday, May 01, 2011 09:09:06 PM errno wrote: > (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) On Sunday, May 01, 2011 06:42:12 PM errno wrote: > With regards to "web browsers" - the over-generalized kitchen-sync > applications that supply the cookie management and password > storing, and bookmarks, and cert management, and home pages, > and back/forward buttons and all that shtuff - a decent web engine > library would facilitate any number and any manner of unique and > specialized front-ends. The engine is the important part, the > actual front-ends are expected to just... materialize. On Friday, April 29, 2011 09:05:39 PM errno wrote: > (by "web experience", I'm not talking about porting firefox and flash to > Plan 9 - I'm talking about native or ported libraries for what wikipedia > refers to as a "web browser engine" or "layout engine"; and by "fully > functional", I'm talking about something that can score at least an 80% > or so on the acid2 test.)
