Leland Olds -- Re: lynx
Leland did not send this to debian-devel, but asked me to forward it.
Jim
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 07:41:34 -0800
From: Leland Olds <olds@eskimo.com>
To: jimr@simons-rock.edu (James A. Robinson)
Subject: Re: lynx
> > I don't really see that we need a graphical and non-graphical browser
> > virtual package. Can you think of package that would require a graphical
> > browser in particular?
>
> Well, yes. An example is a friend out in California who is working
> with a startup company on an information system. They are tying in
> many databases together, and using Java applets to send the
> _information client_ and the information out. You need a graphical
> web browser to access it properly. I just finished working on a
> comments submission program for our college, while you don't need a
> graphical interface, it sure helps a lot.
A graphical-browser does not imply java-support, and html-forms-support
does not imply a graphical-browser.
I'm not up on the "virtual package" business, so forgive my ignorance
and abuse of keywords, but can you do something like the following, and
have packages depend on a www-browser with java-applet-support?
netscape 2.01
Provides: www-browser
Provides: java-applet-support
Provides: html-forms-support
lynx
Provides: www-browser
Provides: html-forms-support
arena
Provides: www-browser
>
> So, I would argue that these things are going to become more common as
> Java and HTML 3.0 take off and become more popular. They may also
> become so common that people develop applications with graphical web
> browers as the base (something like SATAN). In my opinion, it would be
> better to plan for this.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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Lee Olds
olds@eskimo.com
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