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Re: NUTS!



Sounds almost like viewing a web page through an anonymous server.  Definately 
not an attractive option (unless one would set up a proxy server that all IIgs 
machines could easily have access to)...  

In article <874c76$dhq$2@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca>, 
wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:
>Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
>
>: The first response to Dr. Tom's "One Million Dollar" GS browser
>: challenge, if taken seriously, had to be "how do we upgrade the
>: hardware?", not, "who's interested in working on a browser?"  Given
>: current IIgs hardware, there is no way to support a good net browser.
>
>Question: why couldn't this software work in conjunction with software on
>another server?  This machine would convert HTML into a format which the IIgs
>could handle with speed (eg. pre-rendered tables), and convert images into a
>IIgs friendly format (and scale the images for the IIgs screen).  I know that
>this approach has been suggested before, I simply do not know why people are
>not implementing it.  (Not to mention that a well implemented approach would
>be useful outside the Apple community.)
>