George, Those are some good questions. First let me stress, I'm still getting back up to speed on mac development so it will be a bit before I produce anything usable. Ok, my usual disclaimer is done now :-)
Here are my responses to your questions: 1.) For the actual network transport, I am using macTCP, so this will work regardless of whether you are connected via PPP, Ethertalk, etc. So long as you have an IP address, this will work. As for gui and capable of all graphics, we'll have to see about that. Probably not at first, but I'll try to make it open ended enough to add support for other inline graphics as it goes forward. 2.) I am developing this software on and for a mac classic & a mac plus, so yes, it will be old software supported. I'm doing all graphics as dithered graphics as I have no color macs to test on. Eventually I may add color support, but for now, this will be a b&w app. The frustration you express is really what set me off on this task to begin with. i want a web browser for system 6 that will run on my classic and on my plus within 4MB of RAM. I have started some of the more intensive tasks in assembly so they will be pretty quick. I'm good at operating within tight memory and processor constraints as I have experience in embedded technologies and in robotics. Compared to some systems I've worked on, the macintosh is sinfully resourceful, still web browsers are very complex pieces of software so I will have to make ever CPU cycle and byte count! Oh, one other thing to clarify. You mentioned "being a customer" to "support the venture," I haven't said this before, but the code that I am writing is for hobby purposes for me so I will be releasing these programs under the GPL for free. It's all for fun after all! All that being said, the web browser is a bit in the future. I'm setting my sites on simple network apps for the moment to get used to it. (the word "apps" being liberally applied. I'm just now sending packets in macTCP). I'm working up to the web browsing. I do have some assembly that dithers and display gifs on b&w screens, and I've got some network bits. Those are the macish challenges. The rest is just normal parsing and such. Anyway, I hope that helps clarify my intentions. I'm looking forward to having the software too! -Bob On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:42:22 -0600 (MDT), George X. Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:04:08 -0400 Robert Lowe wrote: > > <Anyway, once I get my mac legs back, I'm going to do the following: > > 1.) Work on terminal software with telnet and ssh support > 2.) Work on a decent system 6 web browser (written mostly in > assembly to make it zippier) > 3.) Write a gmail client. i use gmail now, and that means I need a > custom client.> > > Because I'm in digest mode and a bit later receiving messages, someone may > already have brought this point up; if so, sorry for the repetition. > > Great news that more system 6 apps are underway! I'm looking forward to > see what appears, and probably will become a customer for same, if only to > support the venture. > > About the browser, though, there are a couple of things I'm wondering. > Specifically: > > 1. Would this be your regular GUI PPP-based browser, capable of > reproducing all the graphics on the Web? > > 2. If so, how is it going to work on the early compacts -- most of them > non-colour-capable, only about 8 Mhz power capacity and operating within > the constraint of 4 MB or less? Someone -- maybe even someone on this > list, I can't remember -- once aptly described the Internet experience of > these machines as <quotes>like trying to catch Niagara Falls in a teacup > <close quotes>. > > Those of us using Plusses, Classics, and so on have had our hopes raised > before and usually have been disappointed. 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