nanogui: Web browser ported to Microwindows
Subject:
Re: Web browser ported to Microwindows
From:
"Luke (boo) Farrar" ####@####.####
Date:
14 Nov 1999 13:37:51 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991114133629.516B-100000@chevrons.demon.co.uk>
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that I've just heard that Opera Software has
> just ported their fully functional web browser to Microwindows!
> They have sent me a screen shot, which I will post. The port
> uses the Nano-X API, and runs in client/server mode. Full
> color support, palette mapping, jpeg and gif image and font
> support is working, as well as transparent images. It actually
> works!
>
> The total size of the browser codefile is 667k, much, much smaller
> than most web browsers. This means that it's possible that Opera
> could port the software to any of the newer palmtop or LinuxCE
> [MIPS, StrongARM or SH3] devices for browser access, since
> Microwindows now runs on these processors.
>
> For more information on Opera Software, see www.opera.com.
Whats the speed of microwindows like at the mo? any faster?
Has it made it to the psion 5 yet?
BTW: ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwin/readme.txt has a typo:
htpp:// ???
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
