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the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos (Announce)

posted by mceric, Germany, 08.02.2024, 00:35

> All of my web pages at glennmcc.org and here on my home server
> (including the PHP scripts), were created using the built-in editor
> of DOS Arachne and then uploaded via DOS Arachne's FTP capability.

Cute When reading about Hamster, I wondered why it requires ancient MSIE or newer browsers. None of that is available in DOS.

I mean DOS people really are a bit special, so I rather would have expected something like a simple markup language and a converter to HTML, possibly similar to what ECM uses?

Alas there are very few DOS browsers with Javascript, so possibilities for interactive, maybe wysiwyg, HTML editing online are very limited.

Maybe a HTML mode for one of the more powerful DOS editors would be an option? How about one for EMACS for DOS, for example?

My own embarassingly ancient webpage has been built with simple shell scripts to copy paste things which are the same on each page together with the actual content of each page, to compile static HTML without the need for any server side scripting. I think the scripts also were able to highlight the current page in the HTML snippet for navigation and things like that, but certainly nothing fancy at all. Yet it was okay for the time and the resulting webpage was wonderfully lightweight.

Today I am extremely annoyed by how much RAM browsers like Chrome and Firefox consume, often multiple gigabytes when you have a number of tabs open. While browsers like Falkon, Dillo, Arachne, Links, eLinks, Lynx etc. pp. have serious problems working with quite a few "modern" websites.

I mean it was possible to browse the web with Netscape with only dozens of megabytes of RAM. Do browser designers no longer care about hardware? Or have the websites themselves really become so horribly complex?

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• the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 07.02.2024, 19:31 (Announce)
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - ecm, 07.02.2024, 20:53
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 07.02.2024, 23:43
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 08.02.2024, 17:51
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 08.02.2024, 22:36
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 09.02.2024, 00:34
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 09.02.2024, 16:56
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:23
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - roytam, 10.02.2024, 15:29
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 11.02.2024, 09:44
              • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 13.02.2024, 14:26
              • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 16.02.2024, 13:08
                • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 22.02.2024, 11:20
                  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 21.03.2024, 19:33
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 27.03.2024, 12:45
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 04.04.2024, 10:21
                    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 10.04.2024, 10:31
                      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 30.09.2024, 08:46
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 08.02.2024, 22:34
        • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bretjohn, 09.02.2024, 01:59
          • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - rr, 09.02.2024, 17:06
            • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:29
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - glennmcc, 07.02.2024, 23:13
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - mceric, 08.02.2024, 00:35
      • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 08.02.2024, 21:18
  • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:37
    • the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos - turboblack, 10.02.2024, 10:56