From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab3c50aebe0aa719,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-16 17:29:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: An Old Market in which Ada May Play Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:29:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.178.182.105 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 992737753 63.178.182.105 (Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:29:13 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:29:13 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:27:07 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8815 Date: 2001-06-17T00:29:13+00:00 List-Id: I hate my browser. It displays ads before displaying the text I want to see. Sometimes that can take several minutes, especially if an ad server is down. It downloads graphics before displaying anything, such as text I want to see. It pops up extra windows whether I want them or not. It offers minimal cookie and cache management, and no "web bug" management. It crashes about half the time I run it. Perhaps you have your own pet peeves. Wouldn't it be nice to have a browser that lets you tell it not to contact sites from foreign domains? That lets you tell it to display text before downloading graphics? That asks before opening extra windows? That offers cookie, cache, and web-bug management? That's robust and reliable? That doesn't do whatever you don't like about your browser, and does do what you wish your browser did? Unfortunately, I wouldn't know where to start learning about how to write a web browser. But with AWS, AdaSockets, GtkAda, AdaCGI, and the like, I'd think that Ada is ready for someone who has the necessary knowledge. A user-friendly, reliable, portable, open-source browser in Ada might expose the language's virtues to the unbelievers. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail