Re: what new 8-bit software / port would you want?

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Oliver Schmidt wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> >> No, it's just that the current code is targeted towards embedded
> >> systems which tend to come without OS filesystem support.
> >> 
> >> I didn't fiddle with that because my Contiki for the Apple2 focuses on
> >> the client type apps, not on the server type ones. The web server was
> >> running AS IS without effort so I just included it.
> >
> >I presume this is also the reason that the browser cannot open
> >HTML files on the host.
> 
> No, the web browser is by far the biggest client type app. There was
> simply no more RAM left for the 'file:' protocol beside the 'http:'
> protocol on the original target system. Contiki 1.3 for the enhanced
> 128k Apple//e could likely accomodate for the web browser with 'file:'
> support but I didn't modify / extended Contiki apps - beside fixing
> bugs.

I finally broke down and got an Uther card, so I've been playing with
Contiki for the last week or so... I have to say it's quite grown on me
(especially after I discovered it would "seamlessly" launch wget to
download files from the browser).

'file:' protocol support would certainly be a nice feature to add, though
I can think of a few things I'd lobby for first:

1) Page Reload and/or scroll up
2) Support for anchor tags
3) Return to browser after downloading with wget

Aside from that, all we need is to convince content providers to optimize
their sites for Contiki -- I did a few test pages with all the superfluous
markup removed and was pleasantly surprised by how quickly they loaded.
-s
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