Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth at GitHub Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:23:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <854mqq6zd6.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:23:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4beea46cef2d423456f56462f4713521"; logging-data="4535"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yFzViNT9wuYn2d718fOysMyUooUwlwgM=" User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aIkjnuE5NyPh+xPb+nYy2ehErUI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:43791 On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:54:19 -0800, Chris Curl wrote: > The problem I have with the new browsers and websites is the bloat. They > put so much extra stuff in them that I neither need or want, and all I > get is something that uses more and more of the computer's resources. It > is no wonder that we now "need" multiple GBs of ram and all the extra > horsepower ... it's all the extra "bells and whistles" they put in > there. > I absolutely agree: it's the crude bigger-is-better/infinite-frontier Californian mentality. > Last winter, the Yahoo! folks, in their ultimate wisdom, decided to add > a snow falling effect to their email inbox page. It was really annoying. > And to top it off, they didn't include a way to disable it. > > And don't even get me started on all those "news" sites that have all > the videos that load and play automatically when you browse to the page > ... I mostly use lynx/links to 'fetch' [pre-considered files]. Surfing is 'going nowhere and waiting to fall off'; it seems fun in the ocean. Browsing is for dummies.