[geeks] Web Browsers that Don't Suck

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:32:31PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On April 12, Jonathan C. Patschke 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.

Eww.  I'm not against using scripting languages in applications (after look
at emacs, it feels quite fast), but Javascript just doesn't seem to lend 
itself to speed in any possible way.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd