Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/18/05:34:42
Without good forms support anyone using it is going to have
a hard time doing commerce on the internet, but I haven't even found
out whether this package has ssl support. If not this is a moot point,
and the developer will have to implement that as
well. With lynx 2.7 ssl links are negotiable if you have the ssl stuff
implemented on unix machines. Haven't tried compiling in ssl for
dos lynx yet though. Think I'll send e-mail to nettamer and find out
if ssl is supported on that product too and suggest for a feature if not
yet
implemented since I'm a registered user.
On
Mon, 17 Mar
1997, Jon Visick wrote:
>
> James Fudge writes:
>
> > Let me just say this, yes it was one of a few good choices. but there are
> > other web browsers out there for DOS and arachne was not the best choice.
> > there's nettamer, bobcat, lynx etc..
>
> Given the tremendous amount of graphical content on Web sites
> today (excessive, IMHO, but unlikely to change), I think Caldera was wise
> to license what is clearly the best *graphical* browser for DOS at
> present. In terms of Internet tools, their competition is the
> ever-more-graphics-and-Java-heavy Netscape, and people who ooh and aah
> over Netscape aren't going to be too thrilled by Lynx.
>
> Of course, Arachne has its problems: memory usage, cache
> management and forms support are among them. But all the above-named
> programs have drawbacks. Hopefully Caldera's support will allow it to
> continue to evolve rapidly. And hopefully the other
> developers will keep working on their products, as well...just because
> Arachne may be packaged with OpenDOS certainly doesn't limit our ability
> to choos another DOS-based browser.
>
> Jon Visick
> visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu
>
jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
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