> > Therefore: Lynx.
>
> A text-mode html viewer would be very simple to be created. So, the author
> decided to try to do a graphical html viewer.
>
> BTW, I think Lynx is an ugly browser. It works very fast, but is a little
> limited.
Though very fit for MSX, because MSX-modems most of the time haven't got
that much bandwidth.
The only disadvantage is the way it is displayed, it hasn't got graphics and
a variable font. But you'll have to live with that.
> > > BTW, www was created for displaying multimedia pages. So, what's the
point
> > > using Lynx? In the most part of the web-pages, you simply can't
undestand
> > > its contents.
> >
> > I cannot agree with that. Lynx can be used as a navigator. If you want
to see a
> > picure, lynx can call an external picture viewer (e.g. xv on Unix). If
you wan
> > to hear music, it calls the appropriate replayer, etc. So the big
advantage is:
> > it is fast!! (HTML parsing is fast, no unnecessary picture-loading or
other
> > stuff, no background-picture loading, etc.). It's perfect for quick
look-ups on
> > the net. It would already be great to have this on MSX. Besides, it can
also
> > handle ftp, news and mail (with an external editor, e.g. VIM).
>
> I think that it would be the right path for network services, but we have
> two problems:
> 1. Actually there's no TCP/IP stack working on MSX
I and Trunks are working on it... At the moment Trunks works on the
protocols, and I work on the interfaces.
> 2. TCP/IP requires multitasking OS, which by itself spends CPU processing
> power. Z80 at 3.57MHz can run efficiently a multitasking OS and TCP/IP
> applications? I don't think so.
Well 1. You definately don't NEED multitasking for TCP/IP. Unless you call
the recieving of bytes on the interrupt multitasking... However, it is
useful to have it, because if you are for example downloading a file you can
extract another in the meantime. And 2. A Z80 can definately run a
multitasking-environment. The "i" kernel is already finished, and it
multitasks like hell. However, it still needs some thorough modifications,
but I'm working on that.
~Grauw
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