On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:28:30PM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: > 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>
20h did it already: http://www.r-36.net/gopher.php?u=/geomyidae.gph Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361