From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 5 7:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1137B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DB143E77 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 23842 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2002 14:40:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Sep 2002 14:40:18 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g85EeGBv011221; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:40:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D771E2A.9070008@semantico.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:40:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dominic Mitchell Subject: Re: web browsers Cc: FreeBSD Current Mailing List Cc: FreeBSD Current Mailing List , Michael WARDLE , Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Sep-2002 Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: >> I'll stick with something that works, and works fast. I'm well aware >> of the security issues, and have determined the risk to be >> insignificant for the way I use a Web browser. (And frankly, I don't >> much care what lusing Web-design weenies think about it.) > > Well, that's the kind of attitude that leads to web designers not using > FreeBSD. If you want more people to use a nice standards based OS, why > not consider acknowledging them back and using a nice, standards > compliant browser? Umm, developers are free to use whatever applications they want on their personal machines. The only thing that could possibly have any PR relation to web designers would be if we shipped an actual web browser in the base system that was "offensive" or something. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message