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Originally Posted by Teorist
Is it possible to install a text only web browser, such as lynx, on the Pocketbook 602? The reason I ask this is that I feel that such a browser would improve the pocketnews application. It's only weak point, IMO, is the web browser especially when having to use the scrollbars to see the parts of an article not displayed on the viewport.
Thank you,
Teo  |
lynx is based on "ncurses", which is a library for handling character screens. The readers don't have terminals for ncurses to operate over, so it wouldn't be trivial to do the port. As it so happens, I did a fair bit of work writing a curses clone for the pocketbook readers, but it is incomplete in that many curses functions aren't implemented yet. I did enough to allow an old text-based version of sokoban and hangman to be ported, but kind of lost interest after that when I discovered that most curses-based games depend on colour support, which the gray-scale inkview displays can't duplicate very well. Anyway, I'll do a quick test to see how much work it would be to get lynx building with my curses clone, and decide after that whether it's worth continuing.
Edit: Phew, I just looked at the code and this is going to take a few days to figure out. Don't stay up waiting for a quick answer.
