Subject: Re: native browser
To: Robert Brown <shox@shox.org>
From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/08/2002 23:35:01
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Robert Brown wrote:

> Has anyone built a small native graphical web browser for hpcmips/NetBSD? 
> I was looking at dillo, but it's GTK based and I'm having a bitch of a 
> time getting GTK and its related tools built in 512mb of space. And no, I 
> don't have a spare NFS partition lying around the network to use, either 
> :)

well, you could look at viewML (www.viewML.com) but nothing seems to be 
happening there.

and you'd have to port FLTK as well, so the works's the same for less 
future return in improvement.

i really like dillo. it should run plenty decent on a z50. i agree 
that building gtk is a total oinker. but it' worth it. 

> Lynx built just fine so I can use that, but I'd like a native browser if 
> possible. Mozilla is way too big to run natively and I don't always have 
> another box to export a Netscape browser. I use my box on the go quite a 
> bit. Suggestions? Has anyone used Dillo? Is it worth spending my time 
> trying to make it work? If I do get it to work, I'd be happy to put it in 
> package format with a static binary. But if someone else has an idea, I'd 
> rather hear options than to reinvent the wheel.
> 
> On another note, stupid question, but how do you turn off the Z50 from 
> NetBSD?? I do a shutdown -h now and hit the power/suspend button and it 
> stops, but it won't restart without removing and replacing the battery. 
> When I am not using it, I'd like to shutdown/halt NetBSD, go back to 
> WinCE, and suspend until I need to boot NetBSD again. Any ideas?
> 
> -Rob
> 
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