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> Am I being unknowingly unreasonable in wanting this? i don't think so. or if you are, then i am too. or it depends on how much you want this and why. i lurk
by auvrw 9y ago
> Am I being unknowingly unreasonable in wanting this?
i don't think so. or if you are, then i am too. or it depends on how much you want this and why.
i lurked on the Hurd IRC about 5 or 6 years ago, and i get the sense that developing these systems is a lot about the journey of development. it seemed as though most people who were running the Hurd used hardware virtualization.
the browser can certainly be viewed as block to minimality. have you tried elinks? could a V7-like JS runtime replace JITing it?
i don't have answers to these questions. i do think framing the original question around minimal webbrowsers (where "minimal" means it can be run on Minix or similar) is insightful and appropriate to the forum. thanks for posting this question!
- xelxebar 9y agoThanks for the positive feedback! It's really encouraging. I've opened elinks here and there in the past, but have never really given it a fair chance. You've motivated me. At the moment I run almost completely in a browser called UZBL and have javascript and cookies disable. The web, or at least the part I intersect with, is surprisingly useful like this. Assuming we could move to elinks, then the question becomes one of supporting minimal tooling for the various mimetypes, like video. The main annoyance I would expect is from bank websites, which tend to have really narrow browser requirements.