From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 22:46:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20235 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA20229 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 27490 invoked by uid 100); 9 Jan 1999 06:46:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jan 1999 06:46:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:46:02 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find/search a string in Netscape In-Reply-To: <19990109174156.E5652@caamora.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, jonathan michaels wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 17:41:56 +1100 > From: jonathan michaels > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: find/search a string in Netscape > > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:19:58PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > I've worked with Arena, and used it as my default GUI browser in the > > past (it has *by far* the most readable presentation I've seen in a > > web browser), but development stopped. > > yes, and ... > > not stoped, devolved to that yggdrssil crowd for continuation on linux specific > platforms. a shame realy i was getting to like, inspite of its 'unrelible' > nature on my x windowing system (its a local problem that need more brain that > i can muster to solve). Ah, I missed that. How about running it on FreeBSD as a Linux binary? > > I took a brief look a building Amaya on NetBSD, then got > > how did it compare with arena, look and feel isues,tools availability ? Never got it working. The distraction was the FreeBSD box :-). The NetBSD box is still there, but slated to be replaced by a FreeBSD one. > i'm trying establish if its worth the effort, so to speak. > > > distracted. It's on the list of things to look at for FreeBSD, but > > there are a lot of other things to do as well. Do you have a working > > not yet, i've just had a techo problem explained to me. i used to thing all > elf need to run on an elf based system. it appears that most linux apps are > elf based and will run in teh freebsd linux emulator. with this in mind i will > downlaod teh files, since my last look thye now have linux binaries .. what > can i loose .. my p6 and my hard disk .. grin. > > > version of Amaya for FreeBSD? Love to see it in /usr/ports! > > me too, the toth editor looks really promicing, especiallly when incorporated > into amaya. sadly i won't be the porter, i have enough problems with csh > scripts and as such c code mangling is beyound me. > > regards and thx Well, please report back how these things go! Arena under modern development would be welcome. And even if it works, I'd certainly be interested in Amaya/Thoth. Proably won't replace psgml for creating documents, but using it for doing style sheets and quick fixes could certainly be great.