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Re: LYNX-DEV http programming
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Matt Ackeret |
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Re: LYNX-DEV http programming |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:11:53 -0800 (PST) |
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 address@hidden wrote:
>Well, I might get shot down in hot flames for asking this, but,
>lynx is a super browser. I am very interested in writing a browser
>myself. Possibly with svgalib support. Possibly under djgpp. But I
>would like to write a simple graphical browser without so many bells
>and whistles as the normal ones, that is smaller than a meg. I have
>looked at the code to lynx, but it has certainly grown since I first
>saw it many years ago. Can anyone help me with info as to a location
>for a library that can request html documents and images that
>wouldn't be too complicated. I am a C programmer, so it doesn't have
Maybe I'm missing something, but you could start with the "libwww" stuff
in Perl. It's not C, but as far as I understand, it is effectively
a "web browser" and you can use it to write scripts that do html stuff.
I think you can also hook it up with display code.