[Coco] internet access

[Bill Nobel]

Oh I do agree Aaron, HTML would be close to impossible, but client server approach may be different.  I am still learning your DriveWire protocol, But from what I see it could be possible.  I have my ftp client talking with server, still working on the data port protocol.

Bill Nobel

On May 25, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm familiar with the networking capabilities in drivewire. I wrote them :)
> 
> The problem with web browsing (and since HTML email has become so
> prevalent, also email) is that rendering HTML content in 64k is
> impractical.    Even text based browsers like links/lynx/etc require
> megabytes of ram to operate.
> 
> There are some simple tools to strip text from html that can sort of work
> in a pinch, I used to include one of them on the drivewire extras disk. Not
> sure if its still there.  However these are not rendering the content at
> all, just trying to dump readable portions of the HTML.  With modern web
> content its more and more difficult to get anything useful using this
> technique.
> 
> Could a browser be done? Sure, for some very limited definition of
> browser.  However, using your coco to surf or read (html) email isn't
> something I see being practical.  It would be quite difficult to actually
> communicate using such a tool.
> On May 25, 2014 6:32 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That may change soon, as I am currently doing a full FTP client through
>> DriveWire and Bill Pierce I think, is doing a lot more with Mshell.  I
>> don’t see why we can’t do Email as well.  Protocol isn’t that difficult
>> through DriveWire, so possibilities are endless now.
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>> On May 25, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/25/2014 04:15 PM, keithclark1966 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Is there any way for my coco to access the internet to check email and
>> do
>>>> some text based surfing using drivewire 4?  I don't seem to be able to
>> find
>>>> any instructions for the advanced features.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Keith
>>>> 
>>> At this point the only way to do stuff like that realistically is to run
>> a terminal emulator on the CoCo and a text-based email or web client on the
>> PC.  Programs that come to mind are [e]l[iy]n[ksx], elm, pine.
>>> 
>>> JCE
>>> 
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