Subject: Re: Smaller graphical browsers (was: Re: mozilla)
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/05/2000 11:56:28
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> Unrelated question: what's the way to go for Us Who Dont Have A GHz
> CPU At Home And Neither 10 GB Of Disk? Is there anything usable
> smaller than kfm? (which, alas, still isn't stable enough and needs
> all of KDE to be built)

Inferno has a web browser called "charon" which has ECMAScript/Javascript
1.1 support. I haven't got it to work under Linux emulation, and I think
that maybe source is available.
http://cgi.www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/www.vitanuova.com/idown.pl

Arachne is available for linux. (I have used an old arachne is the past
under DOS; it worked good.) You have to register to get it; only parts of
it are open source; and is only free for non-commercial use.
http://browser.arachne.cz/

Opera under Windows is VERY good. Last time I used opera under Linux it
was not good. Maybe it is better now and can work under NetBSD. I just
tried and "./opera: error in loading shared libraries: libqt.so.2: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory". I have
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libqt.so.1.33 -- so I'll try
later.
http://www.opera.com/linux/

Skipstone (I have not used) is a reduced Mozilla.
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/

Another reduced Mozilla is Galeon and http://mozglade.sourceforge.net/.

www.browsex.com -- I haven't used it yet; I started to build it, but
the configure script doesn't find things very well.

I have used various others (under *BSD or Debian Linux) including:
armadillo, gzilla (old armadillo), grail, mnemonic (www.mnemonic.org),
chimera, mMosaic (better than most), w3c's amaya (good but big) and
mosaic.

I think armadillo is dead, but a project stemming from it is dillo:
http://dillo.sourceforge.net/
(which I just got a "file.c:19: pthread.h: No such file or directory")

Hope this helps,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/