IIGS specific graphics web browser for IIGS specific web sites!

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Ideas for a IIGS specific web browser.

As I understand it, the main reason a graphical web browser
in the traditional sense is not feasable for the Apple IIGS
is the graphics formats.  Web graphics are stored in compressed
formats that need to be decompressed.  The favorite formats
are .gif and .jpg and these take time to decompress on a IIGS
because the processor is not suited for heavy math functions.
Furthermore, the images need to be scaled to fit the IIGS
screen.

This may sound crazy, but since we have SIS specific html
tags, how about IIGS specific web graphics!  These graphics
can be stored scaled to fit the IIGS screen and stored in
SHR format.  No longer having to decompress and scale the
graphics, a IIGS web browser using a IIGS specific web site
will be able to browse a traditional looking web page.

I know that this will only work on IIGS specific web sites
and that the graphics will not have the color and resolution
of other web sites, but so what?  SIS specific web sites
already have IIGS specific stuff.

This IIGS specific web browser will enable the updating
of current Apple II related web sites to include graphics.

Speed is not an issue....a full screen SHR graphic is just
32k, a cinch to download at 14.4 (the most common speed
of modem on the IIGS) and the graphics on these web sites
will not be full screen....they will be smaller embedded
images, like on other web sites.

We already have pretty amazing and useful graphical
HyperStudio and HyperCard stacks using nothing but
640 mode graphics.  Again, this is without the use of
the hires images seen on other computers but is nontheless
great for conveying INFORMATION.  That's what the web
is for, after all....

IIGS developers, are you listening?