Re: Why no Mosaic for Apple IIgs?

[schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz)]

David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

: There is a possible alternative: I have heard that there are programs
: (on other computer platforms) which provide a graphical web interface,
: using standard communciations software to control Lynx running on the
: host computer.  (Don't ask me to elaborate - I know nothing more about
: this.)
For Windows, there is a program called SlipKnot which does what David
describes above. You dial into your host and run lynx using SlipKnot.
Then, SlipKnot somehow takes the info coming off the web that lynx gets
and uses it to display web pages on the users computer under a GUI
similar to Mosaic/Netscape.

SlipKnot does not require SLIP or PPP connection.
Your normal serial/modem connection to a host is sufficient.
You must have access to a host which can run lynx or some other browsers.

I haven't used SlipKnot. I only have this info because I read the
SlipKnot www page! :-)

There has been talk of trying to accomplish this type of program for
the IIgs. We'll wait and see.

A GUI www browser for the IIgs could be done if this was the approach.
It just wouldn't behave like Mosaic/Netscape due to the IIgs resolution.
(probably you would be unable to display graphics embedded on a page.
You'd probably have to represent the graphic with a generic 'graphic'
icon that when you clicked on it the graphic would be rendered on the
entire screen. This work-around for the lack of resolution has already
been used in discQuest.)

Paul Schultz
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