Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
Sorry Ben, but this is offending, to say the least. Mozilla is
broken.
It doesn't even recognize valid HTML comments, let alone an extension
language or other much-needed functionality. It would make *a lot* sense
to have a decent browser within XEmacs.
I don't know if I'd call it offensive or not. :) Emacs/W3 has it's uses,
and is mainly useful for dealing with online documentation, _real_ content
sites, etc. For web sites that try to be 'fun' and are more marketing
oriented, I could give a shit about, so I don't really try to support them
as well as I could.
Emacs/W3 came about due to my frustration at trying to use ancient
versions of Mosaic and the old linemode browser from CERN and seeing that
they completely sucked. Lynx wasn't much better when it showed up either.
So in a midnight-8a consulting shift at the IU computing labs, Emacs/W3 was
born. And I've lived to regret it. :)
Most browsers today aren't any better, at least from my usability
perspectives. The fact that you cannot even use the keyboard to navigate
in mozilla is completely bogus. And actually _doing_ anything with the
information you get in the browser window is still pretty frustrating.
IE does a hell of a lot more of what I'd want a browser to do than
netscape ever has, mainly due to my bitching and whining at chris wilson
and other people I know on the team over there for the last 3 years, but it
still doesn't go far enough. Which is why I still hack on Emacs/W3 when I
can.
I've been doing a LOT of Qt hacking for work lately (dont ask :), and
bopping back and forth between Emacs/W3 visiting the documentation, C-mode
buffers, compilation buffers, etc, etc, is very very nice.
But if you want to visit someplace with loads of tables and images in
them, and that is the ONLY way to get the information, then something else
is probably better. Like whacking the content provider over the head with
a very large stick. :) Or using another browser.
-Bill P.