From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:56:22 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <878w29y5m1.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286492295 4691 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2010 22:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:58:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 00:58:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3zPi-00060u-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3zPh-000284-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40450 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3zPa-000270-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3zPZ-00080k-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3zPZ-00080e-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3zPX-0005xC-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:58:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 74-213-206-125-moab-cable.etv.net ([74.213.206.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:58:03 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 74-213-206-125-moab-cable.etv.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:58:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74-213-206-125-moab-cable.etv.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xi9R3z1jAlv1nHaXGrF9azfDxZw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131443 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I am wondering if some browsers should be removed from browse-url.el > since they are ceased projects for many years. Such as Mosaic, Netscape, > Mozilla, Galeon. And reference to some browsers could be updated since > they are superceded by other projects - Chimera by Camino and Arena by > Amaya. > > Another thing we could do is delete support for any nonfree browsers > that are not very well known. BTW, there is a lot of repetition in browse-url.el (DRY many functions are nearly the same). -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997