Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
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Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#2Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#3Take away: including permalinks for included bits of pages (such as comments) can be useful when they are crawled. Encouraging serendipity.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#4Ruario maintains the Opera AUR entry for Arch Linux also, and does very good job of it so earns credit:
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#5Talk about wrong tools for the job. A far simpler to write, and more robust solution could be had many other way, simple_html in php for example, or javascript, any DOM parser will be more robust and easier to follow than all those sed/grep calls.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#6Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
I'd say it's more a criticism of the design of comment threads than the browser.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#7Talk about wrong tools for the job. A far simpler to write, and more robust solution could be had many other way, simple_html in php for example, or javascript, any DOM parser will be more robust and easier to follow than all those sed/grep calls.
I don't think there is anything simple about learning PHP to find a few blog comments, or learning to use a 3rd party DOM parser when you are already familiar with tools that apparently work for this one-off application.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#8Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
I'd say it's more a criticism of the design of comment threads than the browser.
If that's the case, shouldn't they/he be adding some functionality via plugin(or built-in) that improves the situation in Opera.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say it's more a criticism of the design of comment threads than the browser.
If that's the case, shouldn't they/he be adding some functionality via plugin(or built-in) that improves the situation in Opera.
Why would you do that, if using wget and grep were easier?
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#10He's not alone. :-) Richard Stallman goes a step further as his laptop isn't directly connected to the internet.
Quote: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web
from my computer. (I also have not net connection
much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to
a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to
me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it
is slow in real time.