Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Well, the fact that there may be other products out there that do this
doesn't mean it would be a *bad* idea to do it in Ada. Think about it this
way: Numerous users of web browsers are way-unsophisticated in general
computer stuff - they just use Netscape or Internet Explorer because it is
what they have and it does the job. If there was an "Ada-scape-lorer" out
there that had buttons like "Turn Off Advertising" and "Display Text First"
and a bunch of other filter capabilities that were jsut sitting there
instead of something you have to download as an extra, it might be a really
good thing.

MDC
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"Dr Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk...
> ...
> 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.