Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[amotyka <anthony.motyka@googlemail.com>]

On May 13, 7:51 am, spectrumda...@nospam.com (Ewen) wrote:
> Anthony,
>
> > I can't access google or yahoo search pages, the system either hangs
> > indefinitely or beeps and crashes, which is a real shame because
> > google is my favourite search engine.
>
> I am afraid that SIS indeed seems to be broken when accessing Google's
> search page. I can repeat that crash.
>
> There is no actual code on that page that SIS can interpret, as it is
> just a single piece of Javascript, so even if SIS did not crash, you
> would not be able to use the page if it had loaded.
>
> However SIS should not crash even if it can't handle the page, which is
> indeed a bug. Geoff and I have not worked on SIS for many years now, and
> I am afraid we have now both moved on to other things. I doubt if either
> of us would be able to look at fixing bugs any time soon.
>
> The code for SIS is though now in the public domain, so your only
> solution would be to download the source, and resolve the bugs yourself!
> A tall order I would agree...
>
> http://www.gwlink.net/sis/download.html
>
> Ewen

A tall order indeed...any takers?
At least I know there is no problem with my system. It may be that
things have just moved on so much since the last release of SIS and it
doesn't know what to do.
There are a few interesting things happening in this field, in
particular I like Ryan Suenaga's internet-oriented NDAs which I think
mirror the trend for iphone apps which replace particular websites
with a more suitable interface e.g. the ebay and amazon apps. A
Wikipedia NDA would be really useful when playing Carmen Sandiego.
Thanks,
Anthony