> 1) 32bit ASM coding. I can't do that.
> 2) rewriting of my HTML algorithms in pure, optimized ASM
> 3) ultra fast GIF, JPEG and PNG routines, and faster graphics library
I woud like to help you with development of Arachne. As am I already
programming in asm for about 3 or 4 years(usualy graphic) I am sure that I
am capable of doing something like that. But I must worn you that doing
web browser in pure asm would be hardly possible because:
- Hardly enyone could program JPEG poutines in pure asm(and just to say
that worst thing with arachne is that it does not have internal support
for jpegs).
- It would be wery hard to do shell from asm 32bit code in dos(for
calling external programs such as irc, ftp or jpg to bmp converter)
- Development of something like that should be too long and the hole
code wouldnt gain more than 1% of speed comparing to 90% of asm + C code.
Just to say that the almost no one is still doing demo coding in asm
expect in 4kb intros. In my contru 90% of demo coders does not include
anything of asm routines in their code(I am probably the last one here
wich works in pure asm) so the demos are not optimized such as you think.
What I suggest is that Arachne would be rewriten in C 32bit code(wattcom
c with pmode/w) and only html rendering should be done in pure
asm(withouth jpeg decompreson).
Also it would be nice to support smooth scrolling on all machines with
vesa. Vesa 2.0 and some implementations of vesa 1.2 are capable of doing
hardvare scrolling. All 486 machines should pefectly scroll in 16bit
modes and 386s in 8 bit. Only problem with this is that the holl screen
must be scrolled so you do not have space for url and pop up menues(at
least not all time).
Ok. This letter is getting too long. Bye.
BTW: Arachne 1.6b have some bug with system font. It changes some of cfg
files from time to time(last time I noticed it after I installed
irc.apm) so font simply dissapears(for example you cant see the url ...)
after you restart Arachne.
