Re: A89: TCML Proposal
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Re: A89: TCML Proposal
Yeah really, you dont have to support every tag, just support <BR>. Stop
talking about this new format until you can actually create a TCP/IP
interface. Personally, I think that is a dumb idea.. slow and inefficient.
Do you even know how the IP packets work? I doubt it. The better alternative
would be to dial into your computer, and your computer would be the server.
You would need two modems for that... but I'd like to see error correcting
IP checking etc..etc.. on the calc. Hell, it would take all the calculators
memory just to establish that kind of driver.. and it would be
sllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
>I don't doubt the 89's ability to parse large text files, but HTML is a
>very complex language. Imagine how many instructions you would need to
>look at each character if you were displaying an HTML file. With my TCML
>it would take less then five instructions _per_line_. Weather or not the
>89 can handle HTML, TCML will be much faster and easier. You should note
>that TCML is designed to support TCML/HTML browsers with the <TCML> tag. I
>aggree that it would be nice to view HTML docs, but I'm not willing to
>write that browser.
First, what's the point of making a browser supporting only TCML when
all webpages on the net are in HTML? Should it only be possible to go
to special sites made for ticalcs...?
Second, you said you would convert the textform of TCML to some binary
format so a tag took one byte. I assumed this convertion would be
done on the computer. Why not make a program to convert a HTML document
to some binary form, omitting the tags that are too complicate...?
Writing a simple HTML browser, like Lynx should't be any problem. Lynx
doesn't support much... not even tables IIRC.
//Jimmy Mårdell
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