FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] THE ARACHNE DEVELOPMENT DEBATE

["Brian C. Murphy" <BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I have been following with some interest the raging debate between the 
"conventional Arachne developers" and the "Ray Andrews and Associates 
developers". As a very unskilled programmer, I admire and am thankful 
for the efforts of both groups, as well as the earlier endeavours of 
Michael Polock.

I think I may well represent the thinking of the other many unskilled 
programmers or non-programmers who use Arachne to cruise the web, 
thankful that they can do so with a command line browser instead of 
having to try to figure out what to do with the confusing GUI that Bill 
Gates has wished on the computer using public.

As a user, I want whatever I have to do to use Arachne to change as 
little as possible, consistent with what still has to be done to add 
Java Script and SSL, and whatever other things may have to be done to 
give Arachne substantially the same powers as the bloated Windows 
browsers.

I would very much hope that the debate might move less in the direction 
of what is wrong with the Andrews and Non-Andrews efforts and 
concentrate more on a cooperative endeavour to upgrade Arachne to have 
all the powers that the bloated WINDOZE browsers have.

In closing, let me once again thank both the Andrews and the non-Andrews 
groups for their diligent work on Arachne, as well as the considerable 
help that all of them have offered to me and other ordinary list members 
when they had difficulty coping with some feature or problem with 
Arachne.

Brian Murphy
BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  
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