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A browser for System 6
Could make a device that screenshots a website, then creates a very simple HTML with an image map of the webpage.
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3910
and it works very well too. I made a quick howto for anyone interested. http://markyb.applefool.com/?p=184
Your best bet is a page distiller like Copperweb.
Copperweb seems self defeating... the webkit to gif convert seems way better.
Then nothing except a gif is being rendered, which renders your Mac a terminal to another machine, which commodorejohn says he wants to avoid, and to humour him, I'm suggesting things that wouldn't.
IPanindromel I agree its not quite in the spirit of things 
... for any browser than can render gifs and links half decently though it would be an option regardless since its the least ammount of work... it might even be nice to have a button to switch quickly between local rendering and the gif/html-proxy for sites that don't load properly otherwise. Sort of as a fallback.
... for any browser than can render gifs and links half decently though it would be an option regardless since its the least ammount of work... it might even be nice to have a button to switch quickly between local rendering and the gif/html-proxy for sites that don't load properly otherwise. Sort of as a fallback.
Yes, an icon would be cool. Unless you all are content with the one I made.
Some more updates since my last post here:
Some more updates since my last post here:
- The project is ported to the Retro68 dev environment. I am building with gcc on my Linux machine and testing in Mini vMac (System 6.0.8 ) and BasiliskII (System 7.5.5).
- Networking is implemented. I made an asynchronous stream abstraction for file and network IO, which along with an http parser library, allows us to make HTTP requests and handle the responses (mostly). http:// and file:/// URLs work.
- There is still not yet actual rendering of HTML taking place. For implementing that, I am thinking of making it text-based (e.g. using a styled TextEdit field), like how WannaBe does it.
- I could release another dev build if people want to test it out so far.
What a fantastic job you did Charles! I would really like to try it on my System 6 boxes! Could you provide a link to the program ( execuable) in .zip or .sit format?
If you see my postings I'm always interested in connecting old Mac's with TCP/IP on the Net. I have made some efforts to make this simple for not to technical people with a virtual machine you can use very simple to connect your old mac to the Internet. See:
http://www.macip.net
But what then....what to do.... Browsy is an excellent way of enjoying a System 6 Mac connected to the Internet.
In an other tread I have showed what my other "dream" is for System 6. A web server. See:
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/21029-help-with-tcpexample-in-pascal/?hl=tcpexample
It is immediately what I think. Will it be possible to rebuild Browsy in Websy?
A web server for System 6.
If you see my postings I'm always interested in connecting old Mac's with TCP/IP on the Net. I have made some efforts to make this simple for not to technical people with a virtual machine you can use very simple to connect your old mac to the Internet. See:
http://www.macip.net
But what then....what to do.... Browsy is an excellent way of enjoying a System 6 Mac connected to the Internet.
In an other tread I have showed what my other "dream" is for System 6. A web server. See:
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/21029-help-with-tcpexample-in-pascal/?hl=tcpexample
It is immediately what I think. Will it be possible to rebuild Browsy in Websy?
A web server for System 6.