Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question?

[Tim X]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> thorne wrote:
>>>  But most of the web is just not very
>>> fun in emacs... for me.  Just not what emacs was designed for, i
>>> gather.
>>
>> erm. you mean to say that the web wasn't designed for emacs.
>
> The web was designed for emacs, originally!  w3m would have no
> difficulty in rendering web pages written in 1994.  It's later
> botching of the web that loses.
>

Actually, its a great shame there haven't been more people willing to work on
w3. This use to be a very nice emacs browser back when the web was simple. It
even had the beginning of basic javascript support back nearly 10 years ago.
However, it has really fallen by the way due to lack of people willing to
devote time to it and the rapid evolution of the web. A great shame really as I
think an elisp based web browser would be something that would allow us to add
new features quite easily as well as one which could adapt reasonably quickly. 

There were some issues with how the code was structured and some work began to
make it more modular and extensible. Unfortunatley, I've found it is now less
functional than it was 8 years ago. Its a project I've still got on my "things
I'd like to do someday" list. However, this list only seems to grow and I
probably won't get to it until retirement (which is still too far away for my
liking!). 

Bill, if your still reading this thread, I envy your position - I cannot wait
until I am retired and can spend time working on all these sorts of projects
for no other reason than they interest me. Unfortunately, the concerns of aging
baby boomers and increasing tax burden on those still working means the
Australian government (like many others) is tending to slowly increase the
retirement age. While I expect to have enough super to not depend on a
government pension, I can't see retirement arriving much before I'm 70!

Tim

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