Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //--graphics necessary?

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>]

Mike Tulloch wrote:
> 
> Agreed (mostly). I think it would be nice to display GIFs if possible
> and leave it to the user whether to display them. Perhaps you could
> force the other graphics to display as GIFs or as B/W images? No images
> are Required, but it would be nice to have some visual indication where
> you are.

One of the Commodore browsers (I think Cameron's) uses a helper
application running on a unix shell account to display graphics. (I
guess it's basically a decoder then encoder into some simple format that
an 8-bit machine can easily digest.)

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Linards Ticmanis

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