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Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //--graphics necessary?
Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> writes:
>>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.)
Correct. It uses either the djpeg or netpbm toolkit to create a 1-bit
320x200 image out of JPEGs, GIFs and TIFFs, and transmits that.
It should be noted that both the extant Commodore browsers require extra
CPU horsepower but they get it in different ways. The Wave actually uses
the SCPU 20MHz 65816 upgrade and SuperRAM to get its extra CPU muscle,
while HyperLink 2.5a uses the Unix server as the extra CPU power.
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