#86966 - jbullfrog - Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:41 am
is it possible to have a homebrew browser on the ds with images?
Can opera be created as a rom?
I wonder if ds organize will ever include a web browser or wifi support
#86967 - tepples - Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:47 am
Opera is proprietary software and will not be ported by the homebrew community. A port of w3m or links is more likely. As for images, it might be best to put the currently selected image on the top screen and the text on the touch screen.
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#86982 - compacho - Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:39 am
Wouldn't the Opera rom be useless without the special gba RAM cart?
#86984 - tepples - Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:49 am
Until some pirate hacks it to use the RAM in the Supe[/yarr]
If I wanted an opera rom, I would rip an opera CD and run it through GSM Player. But I want a web browser, not a fat lady who sings.
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#86989 - Darkflame - Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:10 am
Its very possible. (and obviously we can do FAR better then links..dslinux has already got an equilivent if you want it).
It would take a lot of time and effort ,and it would never look as good as opera would.
Too routes I see are
a) porting this:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=9702
Which needs to be heavily cut down.
b) building from scratch, working at it a tab at a time and generaly putting shitloads of effort into it.
I think a homebrew browser is needed though, no mater how bad it looks visualy, a hb browser can do so much more then the official opera will ever do.
eg. Downloading stuff to FAT media. (ebook, mp3, rom ect)
What I can purhapes see happening is a very basic browser being made, then people makeing special simple html page websites for it.
My own views for layout were based around the idea of the text being rendered onto a big sprite, which is in turn allowed to spread/scroll over 2 screens. Images could be decoded onto another sprite offscreen, then copyed onto the main one in the correct place when ready.
(presumably images would be dealt with after text..dunno how fast any of this would work).
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#87007 - Devil_Spawn - Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:53 am
| tepples wrote: |
Until some pirate hacks it to use the RAM in the Supe[/yarr]
If I wanted an opera rom, I would rip an opera CD and run it through GSM Player. But I want a web browser, not a fat lady who sings. |
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#87008 - darkgilson - Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:06 pm
But is there someone working on a web browser for ds? (only in text mode for the begining would be very nice...)
With the new palib, would'nt it possible ?
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#87020 - Darkflame - Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:53 pm
No ones announced a serious project publicly as far as I know.
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#87039 - Mr. Picklesworth - Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:13 pm
There is a text-based web browser, among other Internet things, in DSLinux.
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#87056 - compacho - Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:14 pm
DSlinux isn't the easiest thing to use for most people. Plus, it doesn't "really work" wfor us SD card users.
#87057 - GPFerror - Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:20 pm
| Mr. Picklesworth wrote: |
| There is a text-based web browser, among other Internet things, in DSLinux. |
Its called retawq, iv got it partial ported to run directly on the ds, with a port of pdcurses but right now only have been successfull displaying the about screen and loading an html files from FATlib(broke this part somehow recently unfortunetly) most of the opensouce web browsers rely on filedescriptors for sockets and this is in progress in toolchain/libnds and then will eventually be added to the dswifi lib, so unless someone knows a browser that supports berkly sockets like features of whats available now, it will take a lot of work/time to write one from scratch.
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#87105 - Darkflame - Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:55 pm
We can already retrieve the HTML of any URL, its just a mater of interpreting it.
Depends what you define as a browser really...we will never get stuff to look even remotely right without a heck of a lot of effort. true.
But it shouldnt be much work at all to merely display text, navigate links, and download.
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#87325 - darkgilson - Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:30 am
For the HTML decoder, DSOrganize can read this :
http://www.dragonminded.com/?loc=ndsdev/DSOrganize
But I didn't find the sources :(
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#87356 - tepples - Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:39 pm
Neither will you find the sources of Microsoft Office. DSOrganize is proprietary software.
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