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: 103376,1943b1e68472411f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-12 13:21:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.columbus.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D07AD7E.51379394@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC References: <3D062F7D.406B8709@sympatico.ca> <3D0761FF.38554417@sympatico.ca> <3D076F21.E0CB708E@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:21:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1023913315 66.75.151.160 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:21:55 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:21:55 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25829 Date: 2002-06-12T20:21:55+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.