Re: [MiNT] mint web/apache idea

[Jo Even Skarstein <jo-even.skarstein@stryn.online.no>]

Guido wrote:

> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:49:57AM +0000, Katherine L Ellis wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > 
> > > If you want this locally I guess you don't need a server, you can just
> > > embed it in CAB.OVL.
> > 
> > JUST embed in cab.ovl?
> > Funny but JUST sounds like an easy task, when we all 

It's not easy, but probably easier than writing a proxy-
-server....

> I don't see a way to perform parallel network transmissions with the

It's not possible...

> current API.  But pseudo-threaded network io is a must for a web browser.

...but you can cheat a bit:

1. Translate all <IMG>-tags to <EMBED> in CAB.OVL. You'll
   have to do some magic to the filepaths so it looks like
   a local file while still keeping the URL. Otherwise
   CAB will download it itself.
2. Write OLGA/ID4-clients to download and display gifs and
   jpegs. It can be a multithreaded client or you can spawn
   new apps for each image. You can also load and use
   CAB.OVL if you like. Oh, it must also handle imagemaps.
   And it's own cache...

With this relatively easy hack CAB itself will only download
the HTML (and the 0.001% PNG-images) while the images are
downloaded and displayed in the background. It'll be a real
memory-hog though.

> It is a fact that JavaScript is also required today.  This can only be
> done within the browser.  IMHO external solutions are useless.

Definitely.

> Except for the GEM programming, writing a non-proprietary 

I could probably help out a bit there, GEM is the only thing
I master...

web browser for
> Atari only needs a team of volunteers.  It's simply too much for a single
> person but for a team it should be possible.

Even more important than volunteers is the coordinator.
Without a bomb-proof design and a skilled programmer to
coordinate the efforts such a project is doomed.

Jo Even Skarstein