Re: NetScape 5

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Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "RC" == Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com> writes:
>
> RC> Netscape 5 is coming out soon and it will be only 5megs
> RC> I do not see whay we can't make a netscape for the GS.
> RC> Please tell me what your think on this mater
>
>It may take 5MB of text, but it certainly takes a lot more in memory
>(on Solaris it is from 20-100MB).
>
>There is nothing preventing a Netscape-like browser to be ported to
>GS/OS, but it just takes effort.  N5 is the collective effort of
>several hundred Netscape employees and hundreds of people on the net.
>Not an easy task for the handful of GS programmers who would be
>qualified to do so.

I propose using the Netscape STYLE interface to write
a web browser for the IIGS.  Forget about converting
JPEG files, though.  Instead, let the Netscape STYLE
IIGS web browser handle IIGS formats that don't need
conversion.

Instead of JPEG and GIF, it'll handle SHR and APF.
Instead of WAVs, it will handle rSounds.
Instead of MIDIs, it will handle synthlab.

When this IIGS browser views a regular web page,
all the graphics are going to be "broken icons."

However, when this web browser views a page which
has IIGS graphics, sound, and music files, it comes
to life.