that's a really good point. I used to browse http over telnet because my boss couldn't tell I wasn't hard at work. Needless to say, I can no longer do that.
Yup, that one was certainly big for a while! KHTML and its whole menagerie of browsers competing to be more "minimal" than the last.
I think the web has stabbed that one dead, though... ship a proper HTML5-compliant browser engine, and, well, you're already looking at a whackload of startup time and tons of functionality. The size of the chrome is hardly an afterthought nowadays. A really "minimal" browser can hardly browse the top-ten sites anymore.
(Wikipedia's still looking pretty good in Lynx, though... just checked.)
TheLoneWolfling|10 years ago
The amount you need to be able to do to just load a basically-plaintext webpage now is absurd.
knodi123|10 years ago
jerf|10 years ago
I think the web has stabbed that one dead, though... ship a proper HTML5-compliant browser engine, and, well, you're already looking at a whackload of startup time and tons of functionality. The size of the chrome is hardly an afterthought nowadays. A really "minimal" browser can hardly browse the top-ten sites anymore.
(Wikipedia's still looking pretty good in Lynx, though... just checked.)
oblio|10 years ago
My all time favorite reply about bloat: "X is big because your needs are big" (in the article X = Mozilla).