Tiny freeware web browser?

Laura Guy guy at ssc.wisc.edu
Mon May 19 09:46:37 EDT 1997


hi.

a year or two ago when i decided to include a browser on the cd-roms
we were writing, i chose cello.  it was small and easily configurable
to run stand-alone.

i apologize that i dont have the URL.  im sure you can hunt it down.

laura guy
dpls
guy at dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/

> 
> For the Window side of things, let me recommend Opera (http://opera.nta.no/)
>  in 16- or 32-bit flavors.  I doubt you can install it to a floppy disk,
> but you can at least carry the 800k install program around, borrow space on
> whatever computer you use, and uninstall afterwards.
> 
> Opera is also one of the slickest, most user-configurable, and fastest
> browsers around, bar none.  A good antidote to the Big Two bloatware, which
> increasingly serves the needs of publishers at the expense of users.
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>  ----
> From: Lani Teshima-Miller <teshima at hawaii.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Saturday, May 17, 1997 12:04 AM
> Subject: Tiny freeware web browser?
> 
> >We are considering putting all of our web pages onto one disk to tote
> >around when we do our student recruiting. Since we can't assume that the
> >places we go to will have an Internet connection (or a web browser),
> >we'd like to have a small web browser that can reside on the diskette
> >(preferably the same disk) as well.
> >
> >The pages we would show do not have Java, frames or sound. About the only
> >thing we do use is tables. I'd like any suggestions, for both PC and Mac
> >platforms.  Mahalo. :>
> >
> >* Lani Teshima-Miller <teshima at Hawaii.edu>.....Student Services Officer *
> >* School of Library & Information Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa*
> >* The box said "Requires Windows 95 or Better", so I bought a Macintosh.*
> >* Visit our SLIS web site at http://www2.hawaii.edu/slis/               *
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 



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