From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:09:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286285577 31534 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 13:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: CHENG Gao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 15:32:56 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 1P37dS-0006rn-Ob for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:32:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P37dR-0001TS-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34466 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P36Wg-0003c7-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P36Lm-00021G-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:35636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P36Lm-00020V-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn41 with SMTP id 41so582812iwn.0 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:10:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=IelcsIWg5Bw/leXeOZD/0Y0R3bkrMClBsY1/5aeUVm4=; b=FD2ZIaY9XFZBA+db2VWIp7ZAUympouwdGImLfKA4Aq9itqGr+GlsJzGXiCUWuybXAE 77/pcMRQs4GyB3ZL8nMUrLJnT2X0+vVhg54OPqsNOVs21640GHTyd+5T8kzIHAlc8vrC /uMfAYYKNSc2R9otujBpKZ97O+R2IianE7JYc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=gSW8QsQYgkxMJV3nmOh4YW3xp+sDNNTmMjWtJj02t19RYsKXw6faGkKTHHxoEGYqJ6 Dqexq5uWL66B70bv128e6V7J+Nm/aEB8TJzrYgznFszuLt0SHrz1/pS7yOGF1MUjJ3tL xy3JbcQJsKA3mLiXkpENziCn/Lyo6O7TYnFVY= Original-Received: by 10.231.155.206 with SMTP id t14mr12053030ibw.34.1286280629297; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.17.66 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 05:09:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:131363 Archived-At: 2010/10/5 CHENG Gao : > 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. > Just a few days ago I talked to someone who used Mosaic. According to Wikipedia, Galeon was discontinued in 2007 and Netscape Navigator in 2008. The Mozilla browser was succeeded by SeaMonkey in 2006. This is hardly old, especially in the world of Emacs users. -- Deniz Dogan