Re: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Why would you want to do that?

Heck, why would you want HTML at all? Just use plain ASCII.

> It's unsafe and time consuming; I have
> all of that stuff disabled (and Java script) in every web browser I use.
> Gets rid of a lot of pop-up ads and other nonsense.

Well, yeah, OK, if you write a web browser that doesn't invoke any code
outside the web browser itself, then sure, you'll be more safe, especially
if you check all your array bounds and such.
 
> If you really care about security, etc., you won't run plugins at all.
> If you do run them now, then of course an Ada solution won't buy you
> anything 

That's pretty much what I'm trying to say, yes.

Then I questioned whether anyone wants a web browser that by design can not
see many of the sites being designed nowadays. If so, like you say, just
turn all that junk off. Or go back to using Lynx.

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