From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 17:51:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B361B106566B for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-127.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-127.bluehost.com [67.222.38.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E33C8FC15 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 29900 invoked by uid 0); 5 Jun 2009 17:51:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2009 17:51:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=NClYCuQ3m4MKoAN4TTDlEgvTVvzgPiOChHqQRaXPCn9QWWNYuiXp+lIpmGG+pLpLGRVf6mprRmZcKIU4qni1V8BYcTo80wnXyROOvJcphc6p8M8JmbloPv+Apn9pMsuH; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCdZw-0002HC-Lr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:51:45 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:46:21 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:46:21 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090605174621.GC87456@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <20090603004914.73f40a60@gluon.draftnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Open_Source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:51:46 -0000 --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >=20 > but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well= =20 > here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs. I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar philosophy of software choice. Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager do you use? >=20 > Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world. > links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited. > But have best fonts :) The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a page and selecting a link are two tasks for which text console based browsers have not provided an even halfway decent interface. It seems as though Web browsers provide a rare case of an application type that is specifically suited primarily for a mouse-driven interface. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Scott McNealy: "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too." --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkopWe0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXkjACfTW4jGEC7p0FzTCHzXq3Feuy1 QVgAn1BVergrFwApu5fMb7xv79lJNsyV =G5lm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S--