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Re: Apple IIGS Browser?
To: limtc
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:46:54 -0700, limtc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just came back to check out Apple II development after leaving this
> place for 10 years... is there a graphical Apple IIGS browser now? At
> least in says Netscape 2.0 standard?
No graphical web browsers yet. We have two web browsers so far but
neither display graphics.
Spectrum Internet Suite v1.1 (aka SIS) is a script set for Spectrum that
displays the text of HTML pages with fonts and colours. Has some
support for forms but only displays a generic icon for images. It has
no support for frames or tables, though, which can make some pages a
little hard to navigate. You can download some types of files by
control-double-clicking the link but for some reason it disables the
"Save Link Content" button if you control-double-click an HTML document
or graphic. There is also support for sending e-mail which was added to
support "mailto:"; links. There is a version 1.2 that changes its status
to Open Source and it has a few extra features but you need to either
compile it yourself or buy a precompiled version from Syndicomm. Here
are the links to the SIS home page and Syndicomm's SIS:
http://sis.gwlink.net
http://store.syndicomm.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=137
Arachnid (Preview Release 3) is probably a little behind SIS for the
most part but does offer two things that SIS does not. Being able to
browse through a proxy server and downloading files via FTP. I've never
needed the proxy server setting and never really saw the need for it but
apparently some ISP require it (like the author's ISP does). It is nice
being able to download files via FTP but you can't browse an FTP site
and you can't download files via HTTP. Scrolling speed is also very
slow in this version. The only place I knew of where this was available
was Kim Howe's web site on Syndicomm's online service but since that
moved over to A2Central.com, I'm not sure if this is still available
anywhere or not. Possibly on an FTP site.
Both these browsers have potential but I don't think either is being
actively worked on at present but with SIS being Open Source, anyone can
work on it now. I'm sure web browsing will improve for the IIgs in the
future provided the web doesn't decide to totally drop HTML and just go
with all the other weird stuff they've been adding to it lately. :-/
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