Are you making the code available [for beta testers]. Yes. In the process now of deciding where to host it. Thinking seriously about SourceForge. Perhaps an "Oberon Sys 3 enhancements" project? I thought about pasting the new code (about 139 lines) to the Wiki, but I wasn't sure if that was appropriate. At least it should work :-) So if you like you can try it. OTOH after months of being occupied with other more pressing matters I started my WebDAV server on webdav.ethz.ch again. And I will have look into the problems there are. The difficult part is that I fear that these are not WebDAV but TCP/IP/HTTP
BTW is 'WebNavigator' usefull for local files ? It sounds like being intended for inet searching ?
WebNavigator is an HTML 4.0 web browser. (Think "Netscape Navigator".) It was a student project. I recall the author asking for help with it some time back, but I don't know if anyone ever responded. Anyway the parser works pretty good (I've used it in a project at work to parse HTML output from a statistics program), and it renders some pages nicely, but it needs a lot of work. In some ways the HTML 2.0 parser that comes with Oberon is more sophisticated since it can handle forms. (WebNavigator can't handle Google for instance, but the built in HTML 2.0 parser can). Incidently this means that WebNavigator currently can't handle editing the Wiki either. Unfortunately the HTML 2.0 browser doesn't seem to be able to handle the Wiki either. You can edit a page but your edits don't get saved. I wonder if this has something to do with Oberon's weak (practically non existent) support for cookies? Bad news :-( But I don't think it's possible for the (very small) Oberon community to provide a better browser. Even if it's perhaps not giving many academic laurels I think that an OS which hasn't at least some decent capabilities for browsing the Web doesn't have a great appeal to new people. So I can only beg ETH to invest some energy e.g. to integrate the good stuff from WebNavigator (Some support for
Anyway Google does support XMLRPC. And since we have an XMLRPC client it should be possible to build a Google search client in Oberon. I saw that you tried to upload XMLRPC.Mod to webdav.ethz.ch and that you didn't succeed. The file only has 512 bytes and half of them are junk. I assume that there are still problems somewhere in TCP/IP which are probably also the cause of the FTP problems discussed recently. AFAIK there was a major rewrite of the Aos TCP/IP and this wasn't simple. Even when upload from Aos worked also for files of more than e.g. 50K I had
John Drake <jmdrake_98@yahoo.com> problems. frames and CSS) into the standard browser. A decent browser is basic stuff nowadays which is expected of an OS of any value. Or what about a WINE for Oberon ? I just installed it on my Debian today to see what it's capable of. problems with uploading files of this size from NO. So is there any hope that NOs TCP/IP will be fixed to work with Aos (Assuming for now that it has a problem) ? Having finished some other things I problably will have a closer look at WebDAV again the next weeks. Cheers, Edgar