From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Cc: epameinondas@gmx.de, bob@rattlesnake.com, karl@freefriends.org,
juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents.
Date: 23 Nov 2003 16:56:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brr3dnwr.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ANxBU-00088l-T9@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The aims of the new system are to make a web based info reader that
> would be as good as the console based Info reader and that can be
> used by people with slow Internet connections and free software web
> browsers (Mozilla, Galeon, etc... as well as Emacs/W3, Lynx, etc...)
>
> Is this intended as a replacement for Info format, or as another
> format to be used alongside it? It can't do any harm as an additional
> format.
It's an additional format to solve the specific problem of reading
documentation that you don't happen to have on your local machine.
> I am considering the potential of adding Mozilla's Javascript engine
> to Emacs and Lynx which would solve this problem.
>
> Although the license permits adding this to Emacs, I certainly
> don't want to do it.
That's interesting.
If it isn't done then it's likely that the W3 browser will be less
and less useful as more and more javascript looks a likely trend.
Nic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-23 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 20:50 A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents Nic Ferrier
2003-11-23 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-23 16:56 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2003-11-25 18:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-25 20:05 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-11-25 22:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-26 0:21 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-26 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-26 18:37 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-26 21:36 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-02 18:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-02 21:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-03 0:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-22 21:18 Karl Berry
2003-11-22 21:37 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-11-24 7:57 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-24 9:11 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-11-25 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-25 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-25 11:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-24 14:10 ` Karl Berry
2003-11-25 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-24 16:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-24 16:39 ` Nic Ferrier
[not found] <200311222102.hAML20T05380@f7.net>
2003-11-23 9:16 ` Stepan Kasal
2003-11-23 9:28 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-23 12:33 ` Stepan Kasal
2003-11-23 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-24 8:57 ` Stepan Kasal
2003-11-25 13:58 Karl Berry
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