Any headway on the browser project? Someone had agreed to look at getting the source code for our only browser choice in order to update and stabilize it a bit. I am willing to pay for a SixBrowser. I bet a few others would be too. (And yes, I am aware how time-consuming it can be to program for the System Six environment. But a good (not great, just usable) graphical browser is all that Six lacks to make it viable for more general use. I bet that a more modern version of Samba would be really life-giving to LOTS of older Macs that are shelved, dusty, and forgotten.
Has anyone taken up the cause? Or has it become a dead issue?
CERN says it cannot find the source code. They distributed it once, so maybe someone has it somewhere. As of yet nobody knows where it is.
So, would a new, well coded browser run as quickly as everything else in System Six? Would it make my SE/30 run faster on the Internet as a Six Box than when I use iCab with 7.1? It is just soooooo slow in 7.1 and the amazing speed of Six makes me think of pages that load a bit quicker with fewer "hangs" etc.
A System 6 browser will probably be a bit faster than a system 7 one, especially when written in assembly language. Some years ago there was talk about building one ourselves, but I have not heard a single word from the would-be developers. A lot of programmers are unemployed at the moment. It would be great if one of them started coding for this market, but so far nothing has happened.
If you write an article about it, calling for developers to come to help is, I will put it in the system 6 heaven. Nothing more that I can do...
Marten
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