[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

[George Georgalis]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:37:34PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:15:46PM -0500, G Rosamond wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>>Nothing particularly interesting about Firefox/Mozilla mentioned in any 
>>>discussion I had, in case anyone is curious.  Besides Lynx and Firefox, 
>>>what other browsers are there anyway? ;-)
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>w3m is much better than lynx...
>>
>>// George
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>i'll bite:
>links

Weird, I only know of links because some builds failed trying to use
the -d (dump) switch from lynx on it, but on this stripped dfly box
installing links required jpeg png pkgconfig tiff imake freetype2
fontconfig and XFree86-libraries also...

# pkg_add -r links
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/links.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/jpeg-6b_3.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/png-1.2.5_5.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/pkgconfig-0.15.0_1.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/tiff-3.6.1_1.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/imake-4.3.0_2.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/freetype2-2.1.7_3.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/fontconfig-2.2.2,1.tgz... Done.
Running fc-cache to build fontconfig cache...
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 13 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2": caching, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": skipping, no such directory
fc-cache: succeeded
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7.tgz... Done.

... so what is good about it? (seriously)

for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...

c11# pkg_add -r w3m
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/w3m.tgz... Done.
Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/boehm-gc-6.2_2.tgz... Done.

generally w3m deals with frames and forms better than lynx, but I did
just have a problem with the rsvp "check" on http://www.nytchp.org
firefox handled it okay...

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
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