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 21:14:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!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: <3B2D8037.8D26618D@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: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:14:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.211.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 992837699 209.86.211.219 (Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:14:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:14:59 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:12:53 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8828 Date: 2001-06-18T04:14:59+00:00 List-Id: Dr Adrian Wrigley wrote: > > 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. That's an interesting link, but why should I need to obtain this product and a C++ compiler and beta test WWWShield on a new platform to do what my browser should already do? And how can a separate C++ program make my browser more robust and reliable? I know that there are plenty of programs to make browsers behave more in the user's interest, but it takes effort to track them down, install them, and learn how they work. They often don't integrate with the browser as well as something internal could. And there's always the reliability problem; my browser crashed twice today. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail