Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On May 13, 9:20 am, "a2retro" <a2re...@a2central.com.remove-b52-this>
wrote:
>   To: spectrumdaddy
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>
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> spectrumdaddy wrote:
> > Anthony,
>
> >> I can't access google or yahoo search pages, the system either hangs
> >> indefinitely or beeps and crashes, which is a real shame because
> >> google is my favourite search engine.
>
> > I am afraid that SIS indeed seems to be broken when accessing Google's
> > search page. I can repeat that crash.
>
> > There is no actual code on that page that SIS can interpret, as it is
> > just a single piece of Javascript, so even if SIS did not crash, you
> > would not be able to use the page if it had loaded.
>
> > However SIS should not crash even if it can't handle the page, which is
> > indeed a bug. Geoff and I have not worked on SIS for many years now, and
> > I am afraid we have now both moved on to other things. I doubt if either
> > of us would be able to look at fixing bugs any time soon.
>
> > The code for SIS is though now in the public domain, so your only
> > solution would be to download the source, and resolve the bugs yourself!
> > A tall order I would agree...
>
> >http://www.gwlink.net/sis/download.html
>
> > Ewen
>
> I can't try it right now but is
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> http://m.google.com
>
> Any improvment?
>
> Glenn

I was just thinking this. Now that devices like Android smartphones
and iPhones are popular, there are lots of "reduced-resource" websites
out there under the guise of being "Mobile Friendly," with
m.google.com being one of them. I suspect many of these would make
surfing on a  IIGS more enjoyable, or at least as fast as a IIGS can
be. ;-)

-Warr