On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Michael Reichenbach <michael_reichenb...@freenet.de> wrote: > By the way I also think Arachne is one of the DOS flagship projects. > > Unfortunately there are some very basic things which makes this software > less useful and afaik there is currently no one continuing the > development of this project. > > 1) no SSL support > 2) Linux port > 3) uses still real mode and xswap > 4) compiler > 5) to many ports > 6) graphics backend
The main improvement I would recommend to anyone interested in improving Arachne is stylesheets support. Arachne has virtually no stylesheet support, as previously described here: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/235.html It would be better to support stylesheet-driven content. More web sites are using css for style info rather than using things like tables. Even if a future Arachne ignored inline styles ("<div style=") and only relied on named css files, that would be a huge leap forward. Also: IMHO, Arachne should not be a file manager or email client. I think the most progress could be made by simplifying the code, and putting the focus on the web browser. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
