[geeks] Web Browsers that Don't Suck

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

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