Re: HTML-Browser for the GS??????

[bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
:    What the heck is wrong with HyperCard/HyperStudio, anyhow? They're
: both perfectly functional programs that work and do a nice job at it.

  HyperCard is SLOW and FAT. :) HyperStudio is better.

:    You still haven't answered this fundamental problem: Without a
: Second Sight board for the GS, the graphics _SUCK_. I've yet to see a
: halfway decent gif viewer that can put graphics into 640x200 mode and
: not make the picture look totally atrocious. I've yet to see a Jpeg
: viewer that doesn't take forever and produce decent color output. 

  Hm, forever? How about ~80 seconds for a full 640x480x16.7M
color JPEG (with Second Sight)? (Yes, this is a BIG HINT)

:    Programmers have lives. We are not slaves to the mindless masses
: who MUST HAVE TOOL X OR THEIR WHOLE EXISTENCE IS MEANINGLESS. The
: Apple II has always been underpowered, and we have survived by making
: _better_ tools, not trying to make the latest hog run on our home
: machines.  If you want a programmer to do something, you'll have to
: spark the interest of enough folks to get off their butts and actually
: do something, but that hasn't happened for years.

  Whoa, man, you had way too much coffee this day. :)

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