In reply to Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> otherwise new versions will be posted as i add features i actually
>> need.
>
>How can I convince you, that you need anti aliasing ? What
>interesting document could I send to you, written in a tiny font,
>that's readable only with antialiasing ? ;-).
you don't have to convince me. i wanted to write something since
nobody was doing it anyway. i got the simplest ghostscript driver, the
'bit', and wrote an interface... my first goal was to have color
support, and i actually tried to see how the color 'bit' driver
worked, but it was taking too much time (the amount of documentation
for that driver is zip) and i had more things to do. believe it or
not, what you'll download from sourceforge is a one sit of 10 straight
hours and two cold reboots (ggi is quite nasty if something goes wrong
in the console).
if somebody can give a complete description of the 'bit' ghostscript
drivers (rgb, gray) i could, in some rare spare-time moment, add color
support to psv, and let ghostscript do the antialiasing (which i agree
is quite nice to have). i would probably allow depths of only 1 or 16+
in order to not have to deal with palettes. this is supposed to be a
simple program...
>> a few months ago i posted an email asking for a dvi viewer, a ps
>> viewer, and a web browser for ggi. i wrote two of them. isn't
>> somebody going to write a web browser :) ? i'm sure i'll not...
>
>But well: A Webbrowser for LibGGI would really rock. Netscape just
>sucks. I don't need all the bells and whistles ... just tables and
>inline graphics so that I can view my own pages ... no ScriptStuff,
>no frames, and especially no EMail-Client, Newsreader and HTML-editor
>
>I see at least two reasonable starting points: Zen and the mozilla
>engine (gecko IIRC ?). So how about someone just doing it, like this
>brave guy here */ME sticks the purple penguin to his chest* did for
>PS and DVI ?
a friend of mine asked me (mocking) if i was to port mozilla to ggi. i
don't think it's a good idea in the mozilla case unless mozilla people
get into the project. on the other hand, i know little about the
internals of the mozilla engine, if it is modular or not, etc... if it
doesn't contain a mail reader, newsreader and so on it may be worth to
look at it.
i never used zen myself, so i don't know how good it is. i use 'links'
now, which is fairly good (but no cookies or secure connections) for
text-only browsing. i heard that 'links' plans to merge with yet
another browser, 'wb0' (which i never used too). anyway, these are
things to be looked at.
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