From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 8:37:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B025637B406 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 98129 invoked by uid 100); 17 Jul 2001 15:37:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15188.23500.936661.82769@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:37:48 -0500 To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRGH Netscape stinks! In-Reply-To: <21096630@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Louis LeBlanc types: > You know, I have to agree. Unfortunately many of the alternatives are > pretty unstable. I would like to see a basic web browser that handles > current java/script, css, HTML/1.? etc without being so bloated that > it is unusable and unstable enough to make surfing a nightmare. JavaScript is a security nightmare. Java isn't quit so bad, but CERT recommends turning them both off. I turn off Flash because I haven't had time to investigate the security issues. > Preferably, this hypothetical browser would let me *choose* my own > mail client (there's a new concept). No, there's an *old* concept. Ibrowse did that back in 97 or so. Of course, IBrowse pretty much did *everything* right as far as the user was concerned. To bad it doesn't run on Unix. w3m is in the ports tree, and lets you choose a mail client. Also your editor for multiline input fields, and up to three external browsers. > Maybe the FreeBSD community should get together and define the > 'perfect' web client? Then maybe someone would actually write one for > a change. As far as I'm concerned, the web browser should be > mousable (web browsers are the only thing that bring me to my mouse > anymore), but should be completely workable from the keyboard - one > advantage to Lynx. Still sounds like w3m to me. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message