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- From: echadez@galileo.carl.org (Edward Chadez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 04:24:31 GMT
- Organization: CARL Corporation
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- : > ... run TCP/IP program (why?)
-
- : Because you HAVE to be an Internet Host to accept data directly. D'oy!
- : (or look like one)
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- Correct -- a 'web browser' would need to be connected to the 'net in order
- to browse things on the web. But what if you simply want to set up a kiosk
- that is a multi-media viewer using standard HTML documents?
-
- I suppose you could start up a TCP/IP stack and an http daemon just to serv
- your browser...a lot ov overkill IMSHO.
-
- How about an HTML viewer? Sure, a connection to the 'net would make it a
- web browser, but you wouldn't need to be connected in order view HTML
- documents (even with inline images) (assuming you have all of the necessary
- files local to your machine. I believe that this is the way AMosaic-nonet
- worked.
-
- -Ed
- --
- What you percieve here as opinions aren't readily shared by those I work for.
- Edward Chadez, Lead Senior Programmer/Analyst at CARL Corporation
- When web surfing, visit Galileo's Universe at http://galileo.carl.org/
- Amiga user since 1988. Internet surfer since 1989. Grow up, not old.
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