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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randhol@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618219148 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <390D58F9.7CC64B85@maths.unine.ch> <390D97DC.241E7CCD@netwood.net> <8ekfoo$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87og6qnld8.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <8ekn33$rim$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <390DF15E.233B7D1E@online.no> <8ekv8u$52j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 957266972 9469 129.241.83.82 (2 May 2000 11:29:32 GMT) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2000 11:29:32 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-02T11:29:32+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 01 May 2000 22:08:42 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: >Suppose I want to use only a GPL or LGPL web browser for >philisophical/self-preservation reasons. Further suppose that I want one >that I can use on my Win2k system, my wife's Win98 system, and a SunOs, >HP/UX, or SGI box I use at work. It might even be nice if my parents' >iMac can run it. Is there anything out there that does that? I'd >honestly be interested in finding out about it. Netscape comes close, >but its license is right on the edge of OpenSource, making it really >just a big commercial product in OpenSource clothing. For instance it >tries to integrate functionality that has nothing to do with web >browsing (eg: email, newsgroups, chat, streaming news or whatever's >fashionable today) that should properly be handled by the separate >external application of my choice. Why does Mozilla/Netscape integrate >this? The same reason Microsoft integrated their web server into the OS: >business positioning. But why should *I* be inconvienced to help improve >AOL's business position? I agree with you. What would be very interesting would be to make a� XHTML browser. The reason is that HTML is very messy and can be added later. So what one then need is a good XML parser in Ada. Then one need an engine for formating the text, tables and pictures. And then� a general GUI API. Then one can add a OS spesific GUI interface in whatever library on top. For Linux/UNIX, Win2k one could use GTK+ (or something else) and if one wants to have a text-only browser one could use ncurse or something to display the pages. I expect that one could make this into a server-client design? PS: A small tip to those who use deja.com to post. If using netscape you are seemingly stuck with the rather cumbersome forms-interface. I use the text-only browser w3m which uses an external editor to edit text, so if you set it up right you can have it invoke vim, emacs, pico etc... W3M is located at < http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/ > if you are interested. -- Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling." -- Athol Fugard