Re: Net Tools

[schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz)]

Joe Kohn (joko@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:

: I saw Mosaic the other day for the first time, and it completely knocked my
: socks off. That's a graphic based front end for WWW and apparently the
: source code is available. Would it be possible for someone to implement
: Mosaic for the Apple II?

I doubt it. Darn GS graphics resolution being the culprit again!
Also, a seperate JPEG/GIF viewer is needed and a sound player. On the Mac,
these are seperate programs and are utilized by multitasking (something the
GS has (with GNO) but couldn't exploit easily in a desktop environment.
(I sure someone will correct me here if I am wrong).
Finally, TCP/IP, although coming to GNO soon, is yet another hurdle when
considering a port of Mosaic.

: The Mosaic I saw was connected to a "T-1" line that had a direct connect. I
: was just floored by what I saw. Huge graphic files spped through the net and
: were displayed in mind blowing photo-realistic manner, right from within
: Mosaic.

Heheheh...consider yourself lucky. I run Mosaic on my Mac at work and
depending on network traffic the graphics and sound files can take a
considerable time to load.

: What would it take? Am I dreaming to think I could use Mosaic on a GS?

I think a gopher client under GNO might someday be a more attainable goal.

: It's kind of incredible that I've been using the net for probably 2 years,
: and seeing Mosaic, it was like I was seeing something different than I'd
: ever seen before. I was seeing the future. I haven't seen anything so that
: completely impressed me in a long long time...maybe never.

Yeah, the hourly Olympic updates (w/ graphics) were impressive). Another
cult favorite is mtv.com. Yep, MTV comes to the Internet!

Paul.
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