Propeller and a Browser

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• Newzed Posts: 2,503

  2007-06-14 22:59 edited 2007-06-14 22:59

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• Paul Baker Posts: 6,351

  2007-06-14 23:11 edited 2007-06-14 23:11

  You can purchase the Propeller and accessories here: http://www.parallax.com/propeller/index.asp
  
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• comsol Posts: 7

  2007-06-14 23:30 edited 2007-06-14 23:30

  Hello Paul,
  I think it is a mistake.
  I mean a Software, a HTML Browser like IE or Opera. I want connect the
  Propeller Chip via a Serial to TCP Converter to the Internet.
  Best Regards: Uwe Reinersmann
• Jamesx Posts: 132

  2007-06-15 00:47 edited 2007-06-15 00:47

  I am trying to do something similar, but use the Propeller to serve up some http and html code. Has anyone written some simple http code, in Spin?
  
  As for an actual browser that runs on the Propeller, to my knowledge, that's not currently available. That would be something though, if you find one!!
  
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• Paul Baker Posts: 6,351

  2007-06-15 03:18 edited 2007-06-15 03:18

  There is no html browser for the Propeller, it's a little RAM limited to be able to display high color bitmap graphics of large screen resolutions, thats not even going into the whole Ethernet thing.
  
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• computer guy Posts: 1,113

  2007-06-15 03:43 edited 2007-06-15 03:43

  Paul do you think it would be possible for someone to get a propeller with an ethernet port to view plain text web pages.
  Just thought it would be a good place to start with this.
  Many things could be done with this.
  
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• Paul Baker Posts: 6,351

  2007-06-15 03:51 edited 2007-06-15 03:51

  Yeah a lynx style browser with some ethernet MAC/PHY chip should be possible.
  
  You could probably also design a site ripper or spider where the contents are pushed to SD card.
  
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• Harrison. Posts: 484

  2007-06-15 03:54 edited 2007-06-15 03:54

  The easiest way is to let a real server do intermediate processing of web pages (kind of like a proxy). In other words, setup a webserver with a php script and let it do all the html processing and text formatting to fit on whatever resolution you are using. Then send the text down to the propeller and let it display it. If you use an xport or siteplayer telnet for the ethernet to serial layer then it would only take maybe 50 lines of spin code + 100 lines of php code on the server.
• Forrest Posts: 1,341

  2007-06-15 04:02 edited 2007-06-15 04:02

  Here's a web browser requiring less than 10 KB! www.sics.se/contiki/perspective/the-history-of-contiki.html
• Mike Green Posts: 23,101

  2007-06-15 04:40 edited 2007-06-15 04:40

  Very cool Forrest. I've never heard of this before.
• Chris Merck Posts: 55

  2007-06-15 13:51 edited 2007-06-15 13:51

  When we get a C compiler I would not be surprised to see a ConTiki Propeller port.
  
  "Contiki was designed to be inherently portable as I had developed it in C under FreeBSD and only very late in the process had I written the glue code for making it run on the 6510 CPU of the Commodore 64 using the cc65 C compiler." says the author of ConTiki