[geeks] Web Browsers that Don't Suck
Jonathan C. Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Fri Apr 12 14:39:18 CDT 2002
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > [4] Come -on-. Other than JavaShit and plug-ins, how much compuration
> > does it require to open a telnet connection to port 80, issue a
> > handful of commands, parse the output, and draw the result in a
> > window?
>
> Mozilla is a perfect example of enormous code bloat resulting from
> programmers trying to impress each other by being "cute" or "clever".
> The major issue, I suspect, is lots of JavaScript. Not Java, but
> JavaScript. There's TONS of interpreted JavaScript embedded in the
> Mozilla binary.
I'd (probably voluntarily) completely forgotten about that. Netscape 4.x
and Mozilla both have UIs written in JavaScript.
--Jonathan
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