On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:03 -0400, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This said, I also admit browsing from DOS >> is going to be less and less practical. >> Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only >> tried DOS browser which does), > > I'm pretty sure Links2 (non-lite version) can support HTTPS also. > > But if you try Links2 and it doesn't work well for you, I'm pretty > sure the developer (mikulas) would still accept your feedback. He > seems open to suggestions. > >> It shall be possible to write a browser "for DOS" >> from scratch (possibly using only expanded >> memory, so it may run even in a 8088, albeit >> a fast one), but it will take so much skilled >> effort that nobody is going to do it. > > Honestly, I'd err more on the side of "nobody has those skills > anymore" rather than pretending "if only we had more xyz" (money, > developers, time, etc). It's not a lack of skills. DOS is lacking third party drivers that exist for modern OSs. However, something could still be written that ran on a limited selection of hardware. DOS is lacking various libraries. However, these libraries are still maintained, people know how they work, they could be reimplemented. Anything that can be developed for Windows can be developed for DOS, even if you have to reimplement Windows itself to get there (although that would be the worse case scenario...) The problem is what it means to be "a web browser." It's 25 years of haphazard evolutionary design-by-commitee squared. An unmitigated disaster. Nobody in their right mind would try to support all this crap that never should have been in the first place. This is why there are very few "fully-featured" browsers available for ANY OS that don't borrow a ton of code from something else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
