I was thinking about what Dave have written on Browserwatch about Arachne,
and I think he exagerates. Arachne is still too slow and jerky for older
DOS machines, like old laptops or so.
I am working on Linux port, which should be faster thanks of liner access
to memory above 1 MB. 32bit DOS port is possible, and should be faster
too.
But: what about browser written completely in ASM ? I can't do that, I
must warn you. But I can provide group which would start doing something
like that with lot of know how. I can make the HTML rendering code of
Arachne open sourced, like Mozilla is.
But what I need is group of really good ASM coders, authors of those
fantastic 4 KB and 64 KB demos and intros. They would do the coding of
new, open sourced (or maybe not, whatever they will like) "Arachne II"
browser. I think we can use lot of code used in Arachne - WATTCP library,
for example. What is needed is:
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
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