[Coco] So, would you like a little Internet with your CoCo?

J.P. Samson jps.subscriptions at gmail.com
Mon May 18 18:03:08 EDT 2009


On May 18, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Steve Bjork wrote:
> I don't think we can get the WAP standard running on a CoCo.  (I  
> just used WAP as an example.) There is still to much in the way of  
> graphics, JavaScript and XML in WAP to run on a CoCo.
>
> A new standard would insure that the CoCo would display the page the  
> way it was intended by the web designer.

I don't know too much about it, but is there any point in looking into  
the Gopher protocol?  This was a kind of predecessor to the WWW circa  
the early 1990's that was text-based with hyperlinks.

I only bring it up because some web browsers (e.g. Firefox) still  
support it.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/new

-- JP




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