From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "modern" doc viewer for info/html Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wqarkbrw.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83wqarqthc.fsf@gnu.org> <87tx5vjo3j.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83r40zqmcp.fsf@gnu.org> <87iomb2q2b.fsf@gmx.us> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406994683 7686 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2014 15:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 15:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rasmus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 17:51:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaN-0001RX-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 17:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaN-0004bW-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaI-0004Xo-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaH-0004bu-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaH-0004bp-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDbaG-0001hN-Cz; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:51:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87iomb2q2b.fsf@gmx.us> (message from Rasmus on Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:04 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173388 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Is the goal of the exercise to replicate the Info reader in the browser? Yes, that is a useful thing to do. If we replace the Info reader with browsers, and Info files with HTML, that would make Texinfo considerably more useful. We could also extend the scope of possible markup and effects. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.