PORTING REQUEST: Lynx browser

Anyone here who wants to port Lynx on older H/PCs(CE1.0/above)??

Marco

PS: Is that possible?

Sounds interesting, I guess it is written in C, so I have no chance at it, but I would say it is possible.

Nick

I think it even must be programmed in C as this is the only language I know which lets itself compile both on Windows and Linux.

Marco

It can be ported...and it should be a trivial matter as well, considering how many OS's and processors it has been ported to...but someone has to do it. And I am not doing it. (At least not anytime soon...)

Well I would do it if there is a visual basic edition.

Marco

So would I

Nick

Learn C and port it then...

I can't quite comprehend how people are posting that porting a web browser would be "trivial". I suppose it's only 3,361,710 bytes of source in 177 files. Trivial, I'd say. A good evening's work, if that.

I never said that...

It is not a trivial job, but a completely doable one. Its just that no one wants to do it.

-It's been about a year since I came on here, and we still have the same problem. But people aren't talking about it as much anymore...which worries me.

I'm not going to argue semantics with you. Perhaps I misread "and it should be a trivial matter as well" to mean that you were saying something would be trivial...

If people want things ported then they need to look at learning how to develop. No developer is going to wander across these pages and say, "oh, there's a challenge, I've always wanted to develop for a machine I don't own and that I can't buy".

Making requests has been repeatedly proven to achieve nothing.

I would also strongly counsel you to perform an evaluation to check that lynx is what you really want: there's links, links2, dillo, and other small footprint browsers to investigate.

Check to see Rainer Kuechel's work on providing a toolkit to port *nix apps to WinCE. it should help.

If you're serious, and can commit time and effort to learning C, let's take this forward. I will try to kick start a dev team as this is not something that one person should be trying to achieve - and if you take that as a challenge, then good for you

I am sorry to sound negative, but that's the way I see it.
Cheers,
Nick.

I will learn C when I have time, and we will see what happens from there. I would be the kind of person to do things as challenges...

I would love you do do that: in four days time, it'll be a year since you announced that you'd learn C in a week . That's not a dig, I'm as guilty of not achieving on the browser either

If we (the community) do want a new browser, we will have to be the ones to implement it. There is work happening on Minimo (see the latest update), but I suspect that it'll always be too big for any HPC, let alone a ce2.0 device.

I see that Lynx support for tables is not great; apparently links would be a better starting point, plus it has a smaller footprint as does w3m.

Again, we're going full circle and back to where we are a year ago with no progress made... We still need to decide what features we need to have in order to choose what browser to port

http://www.w3m.org/
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
http://elinks.or.cz/

For me, I'd want a browser that can support SSL so I can use on-line banking; javascript is pretty much essential for that, too. That suggests that elinks might be the best place to start, and it would give us features that are currently absent from the HPC platform. However, the best build environment for that will be the GNU toolchain... So we might want to look at that again!