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| System 6 Browser Development Opinions | |
| Posted by: porter on 2008-11-22 13:13:06 Yes, still working on it when I find the time. | |
Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-11-23 14:03:09Yes, still working on it when I find the time.Any chance we can get an early build? | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-11-23 14:12:08It's not pretty to look at, lot's of debug tracing etc. It's built from the bottom up, so not useable as a browser, but just rendering stage to do. It's going to sound awful, but I'll try and make a Christmas present of something to see.Yes, still working on it when I find the time.Any chance we can get an early build? | |
| Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-11-23 14:29:55 Do you have a name for it yet? I have a suggestion: 6Browse. | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-11-23 14:35:37Do you have a name for it yet? I have a suggestion: 6Browse.Very close!!! I'm calling it "Browser6" at the moment. 🙂 | |
Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-11-23 14:43:52maybe even 68rowse :b&w: 1337Do you have a name for it yet? I have a suggestion: 6Browse.Very close!!! | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-11-23 15:02:48maybe even 68rowse :b&w: 1337Oh, I thought it should be 68000-AAAA030000000800-06-0050 Which is CPU, IP SNAP, TCP packet type, then port 80. | |
| Posted by: barana on 2008-11-30 03:00:34 *sneeze* pardon me. is that sleigh bells i hear? ;-D | |
| Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-12-13 18:54:52 Will it be able to open local .html files? I recall one browser that wouldn't let you do that. | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-12-13 19:16:31Will it be able to open local .html files? I recall one browser that wouldn't let you do that.What is the creator/type associated with HTML files? | |
Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-12-13 19:19:11I didn't think html files had resource forks... When I get back on my PowerBook 3400 I'll take a look.Will it be able to open local .html files? I recall one browser that wouldn't let you do that.What is the creator/type associated with HTML files? | |
| Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-12-13 19:31:58 Okay, I'm on the slow 3400c. Netscape saves html files with type TEXT and creator MOSS. I don't know what the point of this is. | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-12-13 21:52:04I don't know what the point of this is.It's (a) how the finder opens files by determing which application to use ( B) how the application decides what type of file it is So, say a browser is told to open a file of type 'TEXT', what is it expected to do? A reasonable thing is to show all the raw HTML as just text, because that is what open a TEXT file means. In order to keep this thing simple, I don't want it to have to delve into a file to try and determine what type of data it contains. | |
| Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-12-13 22:12:57 why not have it trust the file type (extension)? | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-12-13 22:22:13why not have it trust the file type (extension)?You don't want a Macintosh application then? The Macintosh approach is that file extensions are for Neanderthals. The file type is held within the finder info, not the name of the file. Browsers themselves shouldn't give too hoots about file extensions as they go by the Content-Type HTTP header field. | |
| Posted by: barana on 2008-12-14 01:16:27 porter, is browsersix supporting inline images, or calling an externat da/app? | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-12-14 12:21:17porter, is browsersix supporting inline images, or calling an externat da/app?I'm only supporting GIFs at the moment. I'll look at the possibility of PNG once the rendering is done. | |
Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2008-12-14 18:08:38I'm only supporting GIFs at the moment. I'll look at the possibility of PNG once the rendering is done.If you had to go one format only, I'd say let it be PNG. GIF is a dinosaur. Does anybody really make new images in GIF format? | |
| Posted by: ~Coxy on 2008-12-14 18:37:52 Unfortunately yes. Doubly so if you have to support IE6 visitors, which is still a large portion of web users. | |
Posted by: porter on 2008-12-14 18:38:08If you had to go one format only, I'd say let it be PNG. GIF is a dinosaur. Does anybody really make new images in GIF format?Many website banners are GIFs. Like this one ...  ... and this  | |
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