opencd-devel

[Opencd-devel] K-Meleon and other alternatives.

[J A. F. <jaa...@ya...>]

I've contacted the K-Meleon development mailing list and posted on their
forums, but haven't gotten any response yet.  I've also downloaded the source
and I'll be looking at it over the weekend and next week (I'll be out of town
for a week, but I'll do what I can).

Does anyone else know of any other light weight OpenSource web browsers we
could perhaps use?  I was hoping to find one written in some cross-platform
language other than java (although we could go with java) but I didn't turn up
anything.

Actually, that makes me think, while I have some issues with java on our Open
Source CD since the java virtual machine isn't open source, java *can* be
loaded straight from the cd without any modifications.  Plus it's cross
platform, meaning if we ever did a Macintosh version, the installer would be
easily ported.  Still, I'm not too crazy about using java despite the fact that
I'm most proficient in it (Didn't someone ask if anyone is J2EE savvy?).  Maybe
python or perl would be better...  Anyone know of any good python/perl based
broswers?

Just some thoughts.

jaaron

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Re: [Opencd-devel] K-Meleon and other alternatives.

[Alex R. <tun...@pa...>]

J Aaron Farr wrote:
> 
> I've contacted the K-Meleon development mailing list and posted on their
> forums, but haven't gotten any response yet.  I've also downloaded the source
> and I'll be looking at it over the weekend and next week (I'll be out of town
> for a week, but I'll do what I can).
> 
> Does anyone else know of any other light weight OpenSource web browsers we
> could perhaps use?  I was hoping to find one written in some cross-platform
> language other than java (although we could go with java) but I didn't turn up
> anything.

Has anyone done a Google search for Freeware/OSS installers that run on
Windows? There must be some out there.

Alex

Re: [Opencd-devel] K-Meleon and other alternatives.

[Imran G. <im...@bi...>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alex Roston wrote:

> J Aaron Farr wrote:
> > 
> > I've contacted the K-Meleon development mailing list and posted on their
> > forums, but haven't gotten any response yet.  I've also downloaded the source
> > and I'll be looking at it over the weekend and next week (I'll be out of town
> > for a week, but I'll do what I can).
> > 
> > Does anyone else know of any other light weight OpenSource web browsers we
> > could perhaps use?  I was hoping to find one written in some cross-platform
> > language other than java (although we could go with java) but I didn't turn up
> > anything.
> 
> Has anyone done a Google search for Freeware/OSS installers that run on
> Windows? There must be some out there.

There's FreeExtractor at http://www.disoriented.com/ which is distributed
under a zLib like licence and Inso at http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
which is distributed under a non-standard licene. Reading through both of
the licences they appear to be "Free" under the FSF definition.

Imran

Re: [Opencd-devel] K-Meleon and other alternatives.

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 17:21, Imran Ghory wrote: 
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alex Roston wrote:
> 
> 
> There's FreeExtractor at http://www.disoriented.com/ which is distributed
> under a zLib like licence and Inso at http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
> which is distributed under a non-standard licene. Reading through both of
> the licences they appear to be "Free" under the FSF definition.
> 
Yeah, these look quite nice.  They could be useful for placing extra
documentation OSS literature etc. on the users HD.  As for the main
apps, I guess we should aim to use the already supplied installers, in
which case we still need this HTML-based (or some other) wrapper.  We
might consider repackaging all the apps though with one of these
installers.  I don't think it's very much work.  The advantage would be
that we could have a standardized look, making installation less scary. 
Also, we could put all the apps in one place, like the "OpenApps" folder
instead of craming it in with the other junk in "Program Files".  I
think this might make a nice impression on the user. 

- Henrik 

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Re: [Opencd-devel] K-Meleon and other alternatives.

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 05:17, J Aaron Farr wrote:
> I've contacted the K-Meleon development mailing list and posted on their
> forums, but haven't gotten any response yet.  I've also downloaded the source
> and I'll be looking at it over the weekend and next week (I'll be out of town
> for a week, but I'll do what I can).

So, what language is the source actually in?
 
> Does anyone else know of any other light weight OpenSource web browsers we
> could perhaps use?  I was hoping to find one written in some cross-platform
> language other than java (although we could go with java) but I didn't turn up
> anything.

Sorry, I don't understand, does it actually _need_ a Java engine to run,
or is that just for tyhe Java plug-in to run Java stuff on the net?  As
far as I can see, the only plug-in we would like to use is the
Full-screen plug-in.
 

- Henrik

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Henrik Nilsen Omma             Theoretical Physics, Oxford
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Oxford OX2 6TG                 Oxford OX1 3NP
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