Re: [iPAQ] request

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:34, Nils Faerber wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2003 11:11:41 -0500
> Disconnect <ipaq_hh_at_sigkill.net> wrote:
> > I've been playing with Links2 on my libretto recently (prepping for
> > LWE this week) and it might work pretty well on the ipaq. It can do
> > svgalib, framebuffer and X (as well as a couple I haven't heard of..)
>
> Is this the Links-2 version from
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/
> ???
> Seems like a rather cool project!
> Though I miss again some awefully often needed features like CSS and
> SSL... but this hopefully comes later.

Thats the one. And it supports ssl. (At least, it'll allow --with-ssl
and says it works; I haven't tested it yet.)

> > The svgalib version is nice, the X version seems to be a framebuffer
> > emulation (so it looks really nice but doesn't seem to take advantage
> > of fonts, window managers, etc)
>
> Which is also described in the project goals: Just one binary without
> any dependencies.

Yep. Its gotta have some dependencies tho, since (afaik) you can't use
X w/o xlib. (Although it allows a static build, which presumably would
need only libc.) I'm building on my laptop now, more details when its
done.

> > Its reasonably quick, does javascript, image/font scaling, etc. (And
> > its got decent menus, so it can be pen-driven without much work)
> > Just a thought..
>
> And a good one ;)
> I for myself did not know it ... until now!

Yah, I was pondering netscape at 640x480 (and shuddering) when someone
pointed out that links2 did almost everything. Works great w/ ion on
the libretto, even fast enough to use (if you are patient) during a
kernel build. (Libretto is p70/32M, so nothing is fast enough during a
kernel build if you aren't patient ;) ..)
 
I haven't enabled the image scaling yet, so I don't know how much of a
performance penalty it has.
Received on Mon Jan 20 2003 - 19:08:31 EST