From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents. Date: 23 Nov 2003 16:56:20 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87brr3dnwr.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <8765hcf7q8.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069606804 19049 80.91.224.253 (23 Nov 2003 17:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: epameinondas@gmx.de, bob@rattlesnake.com, karl@freefriends.org, juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 18:00:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANxaa-000897-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:00:00 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANxaZ-0001SD-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:00:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANyVb-0004Dj-NF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANyVU-0004DJ-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:58:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANyUx-00044C-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.34.135.17] (helo=tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANyUs-00043X-VC; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from host217-34-135-22.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.34.135.22] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANxXL-00021T-00; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:56:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk ident=nferrier) by kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANxX3-0004l0-00; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:56:21 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18057 Richard Stallman 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