On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Marco Peereboom <ma...@peereboom.us> wrote:
> I really wanted to play with chromium but I have never been able to get
> it to work reliably on i386.  It doesn't work at all on amd64 and I
> peeked at the code.  Bad idea!  The template riddle c++ garbage made me
> defecate through my eyes.  I should have known better trying crap from
> the borg.  Firefox on the other hand has been getting larger and larger
> and less and less keyboard friendly.
>
> After being inspired by http://yllr.net/vimprobable/ but disappointed
> with the way the keyboard bindings are unreliable and context specific I
> decided to try writing something that suited my specific needs.
>
> XXXTerm is a minimalists web browser. It strives to be vi-like for heavy
> keyboard users while maintaining traditional web browser behavior.  See
> http://www.peereboom.us/xxxterm/html/
> for all the goodies.  I am still adding code to it but it is pretty
> useful as is. Laurent started making a port but I have not seen it yet.
> Currently it depends on webkit and gtk+-2.
>

Port attached. This needs testing specially on !i386/amd64.
This will not be in until after the lock.

> Accompanying the browser is a slide generator to get away from the bloat
> of openoffice and koffice.  I have never been able to find docs on
> magicpoint and now that I have a browser that does what I want...
> Anyway the link for that is: http://www.peereboom.us/slideml/
> That code was written by jsing during his copious amounts of free time.
> This code depends on p5-Image-Size.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> /marco
>
> PS: patches welcome.
>
>

Kind regards, Laurent

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