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From: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: CHENG Gao <chenggao@cyberhut.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:42:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim9WQB7ibAEZaZsNXQN0uLPQc0-9v9N=7Y5WtHT@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1P31gR-0006H1-FI@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:11, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: CHENG Gao <chenggao@cyberhut.org>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:10 +0800
>>
>> 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.
>
> Why is it a problem that these are still supported?  What's the urge
> to remove them?

While I see no problems in a half screen page full of Mosaic-related
tuning (despiete of clutter of space and confusion of non so age-old
user, which may be born after gopher become defunct), I _personally_
see a problem in total absence of the more widespread browsers like
Chrome/Chromium or Safari.

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05  3:15 Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el CHENG Gao
2010-10-05  7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-05  7:26   ` CHENG Gao
2010-11-10  0:42   ` Andrew W. Nosenko [this message]
2010-11-10  7:26     ` Jan Djärv
2010-11-10  8:07       ` CHENG Gao
2010-10-05 12:09 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-06  5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-07 22:56   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-08 17:41     ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-09  0:34       ` Thierry Volpiatto

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