Re: NUTS!

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:

: The first response to Dr. Tom's "One Million Dollar" GS browser
: challenge, if taken seriously, had to be "how do we upgrade the
: hardware?", not, "who's interested in working on a browser?"  Given
: current IIgs hardware, there is no way to support a good net browser.

Question: why couldn't this software work in conjunction with software on
another server?  This machine would convert HTML into a format which the IIgs
could handle with speed (eg. pre-rendered tables), and convert images into a
IIgs friendly format (and scale the images for the IIgs screen).  I know that
this approach has been suggested before, I simply do not know why people are
not implementing it.  (Not to mention that a well implemented approach would
be useful outside the Apple community.)

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