Re: Apple IIGS Browser?

["Payton Byrd" <payton@paytonnospambyrd.com>]

"limtc" <thyechean@gmail.com> wrote in message 1187457104.364499.36540@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com">news:1187457104.364499.36540@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Not enough resolution: disagreed. Many mobile browser has even lower
> resolution (typically 240x320) but some - including Nokia S60 browser
> and Apple iPhone, has complete browser.
> 
> Not enough color: agreed. Suggestion: use 640x200 mode and monochrome
> image.
> 
> Insufficient power: partially agreed. The image can be optional item
> and can be switch on and off, and should be workable if the user has
> an accelerated GS.
> 
> On 8 17 ,   2 47 , spectrumda...@nospam.com (Ewen) wrote:
> 
>> The real problems in building a browser for the IIgs, is that the IIgs
>> screen just does not have sufficent resolution or colour to render the
>> images, and does not really have sufficient processing power to extract
>> and build the graphics, that in any way would satisfactorily represent
>> the kind of web pages we now find.

Browsing to sites geared towards mobile devices should ease the use of older/simpler browsers.  If you go to http://m.google.com/m and do a search, Google will proxy the results through a filter that reduces the HTML complexity and attempts to reformat the page to something a bit more low-power-device friendly, even removing the images for you.