On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > Yeah, webbrowsers are a major problem. I really love the vimperator > extension for firefox, but can't stand firefox... Otherwise I think > Opera is the best (or rather the least bad) choice currently (even > though there are major annoyances both in the 9.2x and the pre_9.5x > versions). > > I'm really looking forward to HV3 getting somewhat mainstream (it still > needs better javascript support and some other things). It's quite > usable right now, I use it whenever I need to quickly have a look at the > web without launching any of the huge browsers and when a textmode > browser is not enough.
A few months ago I was browsing the WWW and got irritated again mainly because of the way to navigate the WWW. (Somethimes, I suffer a bit RSI. I also tried Vimperator but it doensn't 'feel' well. I never tried Opera (closed source).) It is very impractical to navigate the web with a keyboard. I do use Lynx sometimes but it is just not suitable for all websites. I was once talking with another student about my frustrations with the web. I said something like this; "I hate webdesign. When I browse a webpage, often, I go directly to te sitemap, wich -does- have a nice navigation. From there I start browsing the webpage." I also told that all webpages should just have a tree(1)-like (hierarchical) menu on the left side, without any markup. Pretty much like suckless.org. Whatever, it just doesn't exist. Till a few weeks ago, I found out the Gopher protocol:-) And my frustration moved from the web to the fact that 'nobody is using gopher'. It's hard for me to speak out such sadness... ( :-) ) (euhk, a sgml tag)<unrealistic optimism> How about writing a new Gopher+ server in the 10 000-SLOC philosophy give Gopher a market share of 20% in about 5 years again? (we should also use another markup language than HTML for hypertext documents) <\unrealistic optimism> It would really comfort me. Pieter Verberne