Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play

[Dr Adrian Wrigley <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
...
> 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?
...
Don't you just use WWWShield? http://www.bitrot.de/wwwshield.html

This allows you to do almost everything you ask for.  Easily.
And it didn't involve writing a web browser.  It acts like a proxy
server, if I remember correctly, but rewrites the HTML to remove
the just that noone wants to see, according to a configuration file.

Of course, you could write a web browser in Ada.  But you can think of
better things to do, I'm sure...
--
Adrian Wrigley.