Re: Opera for Linux

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

"Alex Hudson" <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> tapped some keys and produced:

> That's a price for cross-platform compatibility, s'often the same with 
> stuff
> like that. :(

I don't think it has to be though. Abstracting native GUI elements has to
be better than hand drawing them all as Netscape seems to do. I didn't
set up my GTK themes for nothing.

> > (www.mnemonic.org) At least the source tree can be downloaded in less 
> > than
> > a week.
> > 
> Does that include 9'600? If so, I'll take a look ;))

There's not much there ATM (The layout engine is still in flux, and images
are a bit dicey), but they have some interesting ideas.
 
> On another note, I'd love to see a replacement for Lynx. Had a look 
> inside it once, and it was very grotty. trace'ing pages also gives rise 
> to much internal nastiness, although, that said, it's probably not 
> Lynx's fault. Anyway who's ever tried to comply with HTML1.0+ will know 
> what I mean - all the stuff I do is now XHTML1, nothing else. I don't 
> see any reason for anyone not using it, in this modern world of 
> validators etc.

There are a few. (Names escape me) Try the usual suspects (www.freshmeat.net)

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