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Re: Apple IIGS Browser?
To: geoff
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:28:21 -0500, geoff wrote:
> Jeff: You need to get SIS 1.2 to get up to date with its features.
Yes I certainly do. I haven't yet because I don't have a real or
emulated IIgs with Marinetti access to the internet at present so if I
did have it installed, I'd only be able to look at web pages that I put
on a second IIgs running Casper or Silver Platter (but I'd have to buy
that first) with a direct connection set up between them.
I haven't had a chance to try to implement your LANceGS emulation to
KEGS that you wrote about in Juiced.GS and I haven't had a chance to use
Andrew Roughan's tips to set up a direct connect TCP/IP network with a
Windows box that was also in Juiced.GS. Maybe after I get back from Las
Vegas and the company I'm temping for finally hires me full time I'll
have some free time again. :-)
> 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.
Sweet. I was kind of confused about not being able to download any type
of file seeing as I only ever used the alpha version of the TCP/IP
support you wrote for SIS 1.1 so I didn't understand why it wouldn't let
me.
> 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.).
I looked at the new features on the SIS web site but didn't list them
specifically because I was putting the link into the message anyway. I
know that with SIS v1.1 I was a little disappointed with the way tables
displayed so I really need to check out v1.2 to see if it has gotten
better because I tend to use tables quite heavily in my web pages.
Thanks for the update but dang it, now I've got yet another thing to add
to my Apple II "to do" list. :-)
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