[Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?

[Frank Pittel]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:07:34PM -0400, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2009 at 21:25, Diego Barizo wrote:
> 
> > Besides web access, another good reason to have a browser like program
> > for the CoCo, is to be able to open HTML files, which are the real
> > Portable Document File, - not that other format :-) That was the idea
> > behind my attempt to create what is an HTML renderer, not a web
> > browser. To allow me to create a formatted text file in the PC, and
> > open it in the CoCo keeping most of the formatting.
> > 
> > Diego
> > 
> 
> Fifteen years ago when the HTML was still in its adolescent years yes. Now 
> that HTML has matured into XML there is no way that a stock Coco3 could 
> have the graphics power to do all that XML or even HTML can do. Heck not 
> even the two popular browsers on PCs today support all the features of 
> HTML or even XML. 
> 
> You would have to redign the 6309 processor to run on 45 nM silicon to just 
> think of getting enough computing power. A separate graphics processor 
> with accelleration. 
> 
> Yes you could do a small subset of the HTML language on a Coco3.  But it 
> may very well be highly limited to make surfing the net not a pretty sight.
> 
> just my opinion

I"m interested in seeing how the cocoweb people handle flash and javascript! :-)