[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs ncsa_mosaic

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 30.03.2010 um 02:40 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Maciej Blizinski  
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> NCSA Mosaic: Oh, the good old times!
>>
>> * ncsa_mosaic: new package
>>  + ncsa_mosaic-2.7b6,REV=2010.03.26-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>>  + ncsa_mosaic-2.7b6,REV=2010.03.26-SunOS5.10-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>
> Ummm.......  UUUMMMMMMM...
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm going to need a reason to justify adding in this
> piece of junk :-}
>
> I would presume it cant even properly render 50% of the websites out
> there, at this point

Because it is a piece of history. Consider it similar to xpilot.
Or elm. Or xv. It is one of the things that give you baaad feeling
about the past because Mosaic slowed down ftp :-) Joking aside:
I find it really cool to have some decent Web 1.0 Browser at hand.


Best regards

   -- Dago