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 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-17 18:43:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news11-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> From: Dr Adrian Wrigley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:38:47 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.107.104.245 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news11-gui.server.ntli.net 992828318 213.107.104.245 (Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:38:38 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:38:38 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8826 Date: 2001-06-18T02:38:47+01:00 List-Id: 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.