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- From: innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 05:36:01 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <4cde4f$h0f@news.uni-c.dk> perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen) writes:
- >
- > > TCP/IP is the communications protocol used on the web. Any Internet software
- > > needs it and so will this new browser.
- >
- > Unless it were to do it's own communication, which would be very nice,
- > then you woulnd't have to faf around with amitcp etc.
-
- True, but then the author(s) has to spend months re-creating a TCP/IP
- stack, instead of working on a good browser, when the end result will be
- inevitably inferior to AmiTCP/IP. Why inferior? If the browser handles
- TCP/IP internally, then you're stuck with the Web browser, newsreader, e-mail
- program, FTP client, and telnet client that the author provides, as no
- external program can access the network. And that's IF the program includes
- all those facilities, which it may not, because the author had to spend a lot
- of time re-creating TCP/IP.
- Then again, I suppose the author could do something such as AmiTCP, make a
- library interface available to external applications, so they can access the
- network. Another problem arises, you can't use external programs without
- loading the whole, big program, which'll take about 3 megs itself, because it
- includes all those features internally.
-
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
-