Re: what new 8-bit software / port would you want?

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi Simon,

>I finally broke down and got an Uther card, so I've been playing with
>Contiki for the last week or so... I have to say it's quite grown on me

Thanks for the positive feedback :-)

>(especially after I discovered it would "seamlessly" launch wget to
>download files from the browser).

I agree with you in that this is cool as both the html renderer of the
browser and the file accessor of the downloader would not fit together
into memory (at least on 64k systems).

It is implemented by posting an asynchonous event to the system event
queue to start the downloader and providing the URL as event data.

At the point the downloader gets started the browser has already quit
and therefore its memory is already freed.

>'file:' protocol support would certainly be a nice feature to add, though
>I can think of a few things I'd lobby for first:
>
>1) Page Reload and/or scroll up
>2) Support for anchor tags
>3) Return to browser after downloading with wget

I agree with you that these would be (the) major usability
improvements.

>Aside from that, all we need is to convince content providers to optimize
>their sites for Contiki -- I did a few test pages with all the superfluous
>markup removed and was pleasantly surprised by how quickly they loaded.

Or even convince pogrammes to improve the existing Contiki apps. Again
- this is not about 6502 assembler hacking. It's about programming in
C using your favorite editor on the PC...

Best, Oliver