from dmccunney: > And sometimes it's correct advice. The computer world changes with > enormous rapidity, and one area where change is fastest is web > browsing. These days, the push is to support HTML5, and CSS3, with > current JavaScript. HTML5 is a big push because the <video> keyword > makes it possible to embed video without using Flash. You still need > a codec to decode and display the video, but the codec is part of the > browser, and not a third party plugin. CSS3 offers major additional > capabilities in determining how sites look in a manner separated from > their content. And *everybody* uses JavaScript now. > It's why I don't even try to browse from DOS. No current DOS browser > comes anywhere close to the support for current web standards that is > really needed, and none *will*. It's likely not possible under DOS, > and no one will expend the considerable effort to implement what can > be done under DOS because there's no money in it. People who can do > that sort of thing expect to be paid for it, and who will do so?
I browsed www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ just for curiosity. Last released version of DOS port of lynx was 2.8.5rel.1, date 18 April 2004. Last line of this web page read: This page last updated 2 November 2006. I also tried www.nettamer.net/tamer.html : looked like the same old stuff from 1999. I checked www.glennmcc.org : latest Arachne is v1.97, dating to Mar 04, 2013. I think it might be possible to produce a DOS web browser with support for current web standards, but would not be worthwhile on an OS that distinguishes between conventional, extended and expanded memory. Writing a web browser is more efficient in Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Haiku not to mention Windows and Mac, and not many people would be interested in web-browsing from DOS. At this stage, my interest in browsing from DOS would be mainly to see if it works on simpler sites, naturally not including any kind of online commerce. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
