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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no 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: 2001-06-18 07:36:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:27:26 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9gl34g$ah5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 992874448 10789 136.170.200.133 (18 Jun 2001 14:27:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 2001 14:27:28 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8843 Date: 2001-06-18T14:27:28+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Dr Adrian Wrigley" 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.