Web browsers
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#Plan9 has several options for web browsers, though none supports
#perfectly the most complex(or broken) websites some of them are
#quite useable.
#
#ABACO
#
#As of July 2009 the lightweight web browser abaco is now distributed
#as part of the stock Plan 9 distribution. It is a web browser that
#started as a rewrite of webpage, with many new improvements
#including tables support. A testing snapshot can be found at:
#/n/sources/contrib/fgb
#
#CHARON
#
#Charon is the web browser supplied with the Inferno OS. It supports
#Javascript and https. It has very few features (a good thing) but
#requires the inferno runtime environment. Charon is packaged as part
#of [Inferno | http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html]
#
#WEBPAGE
#
#webfs(4) and html(2) were written at Bell labs as the backend for a
#new web browser; unfortunately the project stalled. Aki Nyrhinen has
#since written a simple frontend called webpage for these which does
#an amazingly good job of rendering basic web pages; it also makes
#interesting use of the plumber to support hyperlinks. This work also
#stalled and has been superseded by abaco.
#
#LINKS
#
#Links is a graphical web browser which renders pages fairly well. It
#is not quite stable, crashing on some pages but usable for google
#searches and the like. It supports CSS and javascript but not java
#or https (though this would not take a great deal to fix). The
#current implementation is fairly graphics hungry and should be run
#on a local terminal for best peformance. The greatest annoyance with
#links is the lack of support for cut and paste between links windows
#and the plan9 snarf buffer. The source is availabe in Andrey
#Mirtchov's [contrib] dir: /n/sources/contrib/andrey/links.tgz
#
#MOTHRA
#
#Mothra was written by Tom Duff for the second edition of plan9. It
#is very basic and does not support ftp, java, javascript, https or
#CSS. On the other hand it is very fast and compiles natively for
#plan9. The sources relies on the second edition panel library which
#has also been released, see /n/sources/extra/mothra.
#
#HGET | HTMLFMT
#
#The plan9 tools hget(1) and htmlfmt(1) can be used to fetch and
#render simple web pages but are most useful for scripted fetches
#(e.g. ap(1))
#
#VNC TO WINDOWS OR *NIX
#
#The best way to get a fully supported web browser under plan9 is to
#use the vnc client to connect to a linux or Windows box. This
#performs very well if used over a fast network connection.
#