Re: Apple IIGS Browser?

["geoff" <geoff@a2central.com.remove-9em-this>]

  To: Jeff Blakeney
Jeff: You need to get SIS 1.2 to get up to date with its features.

SIS 1.2 has the look and feel of Netscape 3.0 without the ability to display 
graphical images.  It is fully GUI with all other functionality.

Downloads of all content is now available--version 1.1 was limited since it 
did not support TCP/IP to get 8-bit data.  Graphical pictures can be 
downloaded and displayed with your favorite GS image viewer.

SIS has basic support for tables and handles frames and imagemaps just like 
lynx.  SIS fully supports the HTML 3 specifications for forms.  Additional 
features of SIS includes a vt100 telnet client and the functionality of the 
Finder (browse disks/directories, run applications, copy/move files, etc.).  

Geoff

 > 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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