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

posted by turboblack, 08.02.2024, 21:18

> > 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?

as you may have noticed, I posted a screenshot of a working editor for DOS, unfortunately, Javascript does not work in DOS, and DOS users are forced to edit the text by adding tags. but if you consider that there are not many of them, bold underline italics title picture link - what else is needed on the page? in general, the text will be formatted relative to the styles on the page, this is also important. many people do not use images on pages and blogs, I can’t say that this is ascetic, because anyway, the main thing on a site is text information, and only then everything else. There are few browsers for DOS, but they exist and they work. this is the main thing. As you may have noticed, I have posted several simple templates on the site that are ready and can be used. some don't work under DOS because there are a lot of layers, and Link doesn't like layers. but you can make your own, no problem. in the future I am planning more interesting templates, I will improve the script a little, there is no limit to perfection, right? ))

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