Re: Apple ][ as aggregator?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 16 Apr 2004 22:13:23 -0400, dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)
wrote:

>...But there is a 'new' class of Internet utilities on the scene these
>days that seem like they were designed with the Apple ][ in mind:  content
>aggregators.  After all, the graphics on the ][ are pretty wretched these
>days, so it's not too practical as a web browser.  But all the web people
>are rediscovering plain 'ol text, and using Web protocols to move
>formatted XML content via RSS.

Well, I have little idea what an RSS reader is or does, although I
have seen that A2Central.com supports it for sending out news updates.

I did write a simple XML parser as a HackFest entry at KFest 2002.  I
never did finish it or release it but that isn't anything new for me.
I really do need to finish some of these projects off one of these
days.  :-)

>Well...content is one of the things that the Apple ][ can handle really
>well.  After all, how many of us are still using our ]['s to read USENET? 
>(I'm not at the moment, but that's only because of the aforementioned
>Marinetti difficulties...it would sure be nice to be rid of this Terminal
>window on the Mac at the times when I am doing things that the ][ can
>do better...)

Marinetti is getting more and more stable with each release.
Personally, I've never had many problems with Marinetti.  I do hope to
be reading these newsgroups with my IIgs at some point in the not too
distant future.

>So I have to ask...is anybody exploring an RSS reader or other aggregator
>(Sherlock ][?) for the IIgs?

See above.  I've got too many other unfinished projects to finish
before even thinking about a new one.  :-)

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