From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrew W. Nosenko" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:42:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289349754 12082 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2010 00:42:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: CHENG Gao , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 10 01:42:30 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 1PFylh-0001Oq-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:42:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFylh-0006ic-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33573 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFylZ-0006iQ-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFylY-0000kT-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:65131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFylY-0000k6-9S; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: by qwi2 with SMTP id 2so93360qwi.0 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=d7L+a/veZ3yjuPictW0QSV9Tk8swK/uPJhuE0Mr9occ=; b=eCcvT/eAQz3Nl1L+gaT8jO3k7xoP+5FueSYEqnaFdNT9WVcInhKIrvljguIlMukj5a gKXdyZDf5s0/J6403w4YyJ4AbMA5MHwCnVPUdgkgZrhPOllbhDAQGGV3XftsUKmPgPgZ Js72eSvJ4t22tHNcVbFOIMrQwjM3gTrOKmzc8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dErxEZQrR7WLuxIDPx0ur/B/NdJJQz3UEXb9FwFBsnxrT7f+1RNO1JAo7ZtRVfWT8u 4TmW/6dPVQMdjxfrXjOjKXNdfOGoh+QQOPrzYlgH6UQG4slM6fPAKzM7d/P5kWvggCcm ZGLEMX6pwzwWLf46IvD1OgObawauqz681PdUw= Original-Received: by 10.229.101.197 with SMTP id d5mr6913523qco.220.1289349739152; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.229.95.209 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) 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:132489 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: CHENG Gao >> 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? =A0What'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. --=20 Andrew W. Nosenko