Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Obsbedia2 wrote:
> How much graphics are really desired for an 8-bit Apple II web browser?
> 
> The ability to click on a hot-link and jump to another page seems to be the
> highest form of graphic interface necessary.  GIFS seem to come in different
> formats, since some are displayable on my //e and some are not.  Frankly, I
> think that I could do without JPEGS, I'd be more interested in being able to
> access a site, such as eBay, than I would be to see the DHR equivalent of 
the
> jpegs for the items for sale.
> 
>   So, it's the ease of the interface, hopefully a mouse, that makes the
> web-browser more friendly, not the pretty graphics.  
> 
>   Please consider that most A2 users today have mice, a Meg of memory, hard
> drives and accelerators.
> 
>   Jay Edwards
>       ][ Infinitum!
> 
> 

Subject: Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //--graphics necessary?
From: Cameron Kaiser <A HREF="mailto:ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu";>
ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu</A> 
Date: Thu, May 2, 2002 6:24 AM
Message-id: <3cd13d81$0$40650$45beb828@newscene.com>

Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> writes:

>>Agreed (mostly). I think it would be nice to display GIFs if possible
>>and leave it to the user whether to display them. Perhaps you could
>>force the other graphics to display as GIFs or as B/W images? No images
>>are Required, but it would be nice to have some visual indication where
>>you are.

>One of the Commodore browsers (I think Cameron's) uses a helper
>application running on a unix shell account to display graphics. (I
>guess it's basically a decoder then encoder into some simple format that
>an 8-bit machine can easily digest.)

Correct. It uses either the djpeg or netpbm toolkit to create a 1-bit
320x200 image out of JPEGs, GIFs and TIFFs, and transmits that.

It should be noted that both the extant Commodore browsers require extra
CPU horsepower but they get it in different ways. The Wave actually uses
the SCPU 20MHz 65816 upgrade and SuperRAM to get its extra CPU muscle,
while HyperLink 2.5a uses the Unix server as the extra CPU power.

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