Re: NetScape 5

[Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com>]

That is more in the range I think the gs can do 
I would like to see sone thing like this
Use GS sound, graphic, vidio, and all the other gs fun stuff.

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
: Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

:>>>>>> "RC" == Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com> writes:
:>
:> RC> Netscape 5 is coming out soon and it will be only 5megs
:> RC> I do not see whay we can't make a netscape for the GS.
:> RC> Please tell me what your think on this mater
:>
:>It may take 5MB of text, but it certainly takes a lot more in memory
:>(on Solaris it is from 20-100MB).
:>
:>There is nothing preventing a Netscape-like browser to be ported to
:>GS/OS, but it just takes effort.  N5 is the collective effort of
:>several hundred Netscape employees and hundreds of people on the net.
:>Not an easy task for the handful of GS programmers who would be
:>qualified to do so.

: I propose using the Netscape STYLE interface to write
: a web browser for the IIGS.  Forget about converting
: JPEG files, though.  Instead, let the Netscape STYLE
: IIGS web browser handle IIGS formats that don't need
: conversion.

: Instead of JPEG and GIF, it'll handle SHR and APF.
: Instead of WAVs, it will handle rSounds.
: Instead of MIDIs, it will handle synthlab.

: When this IIGS browser views a regular web page,
: all the graphics are going to be "broken icons."

: However, when this web browser views a page which
: has IIGS graphics, sound, and music files, it comes
: to life.