Skipstone seems to be faster > on Phoenix (but I haven't been able to do a proper test on > this computer because it doesn't have enough HD space for > the full Mozilla).
I'm kind of limited to this beta testing type stuff to evenings now, and have to fit it in around other things, but I could give some general feedback on how things work, or barely work, on a computer of such underwhelming proportions.
Skipstone (Austin, TX) is shipping a FireWire development toolkit, the TK-10.
Hopefully, FireWire's acceptance also means the end of some truly brain dead consumer electronics interfaces, like the ubiquitous Toslink found on many laser discs and CD players; as well as a hopeful farewell to SP/DIF (Sony/Philips Data Interface).
Gary Hoffman, President of Skipstone, and the chairman of the 1394 Trade Association, has predicted that FireWire will become a standard consumer electronics interface in 1996.
NORDview’s experienced management team has proved themselves in both large international corporations such as IBM and in Skipstone, a successful multi-million dollar start-up company they created, managed and finally sold to Adaptec in 1997.
Skipstone was a pioneer in the development and productization of the emerging technology known as IEEE-1394 (also known as Firewire), which is the standard high speed digital interconnect for a growing number of consumer electronics products.
He was also a founder of Skipstone where he was operations manager.
www.nordview.com /nordview.html (693 words)
Skipstone | home(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko.
SkipStone is currently under heavy development, but its progressing quickly and coming along nicely.
Mail and external url handlers are also handled by external applications which can be configured to the users choice, leaving SkipStone to do what it does best - browsing.
Skipstone has acceptable startup time on a 32MB machine and is completely usable with no obnoxious delays, yet it has all of the features you would expect to find in Mozilla, because it is built on Gecko.
The only downside is that the Skipstone install requires Mozilla, since it uses Mozilla's renderer, but I'm trying to think of Skipstone as a small addon to Mozilla that triples its speed, and that seems to be helping to put my mind at ease.
Actually with Skipstone it's easy, the tab's title of the page is red until it loads completely, when it becomes fl.
Sony's own booth contained a large theater showing their vision of the home of the future featuring IEEE 1394 as the digital data transport medium.
In early 1995, Skipstone provided its first generation IEEE 1394 developer toolkit to assist manufacturers in adding IEEE 1394 capability to their products.
Skipstone is a trademark of Skipstone, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
Skipstone Case Studies(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When the CRHA wanted to find a way to increase member benefits, they turned to Skipstone.
Skipstone provided the ideal solution by allowing front page stories to be published instantly while automatically storing previous editorial in a serachable library.
Each reader is able to create their own web site with an easy to use interface for up to date listing of salons across North America.
www.skipstone.ca /casestudies.htm (145 words)
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The same goes for the skipstone binary tgz.
Note that skipstone plugins are only included in the source packages, you must compile your own plugins always for now.
If you write a plugin for SkipStone, please feel free to submit it for inclusion to me or to the
It provides a nice configurable interface, bookmarks and all of the other mandantory browsing features.
However, if you prefer to use other download utilities and managers, this option is configurable.
Mail and external URL handlers are also handled by external applications that can be configured to the user's choice, leaving SkipStone to do what it does best -- browsing.
How Skipstone Works(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Through Skipstone, members and the public have access to information and provide feedback online though self-service web pages.
The central association connects to its members in a secure area, while the members can publish to the public via their own Web page.
With Skipstone’s team, your association sets up the look and feel of their web site The administrative staff can begin to publish content from their own computers, giving the site an “up to the minute”, timely nature.
www.skipstone.ca /howitworks.htm (198 words)
Installed Skipstone, but getting error when i run it. - Topic Ars OpenForum(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Installed Skipstone, but getting error when i run it.
I downloaded the Skipstone RPM from their website and it got luckily installed without any errors or dependency problems (Yay!!).
Looks like the Skipstone RPM is compiled against a version of Mozilla that's too old for it to work against the one packaged in RH9.
Skipstone is an independently developed frontend for Mozilla so Mozilla people dont controll it or how it developes.
It is meant to just install and use already present files from a full Mozilla installation like the many frontends for IE under windows.
However the developer of Puppy wanted to keep his distribution small so he used Skipstone, but just added the actual files from Mozilla that Skipstone needs to function, leaving off any extra Mozilla bloat.
I think SkipStone would be an excellent browser for PS2 Linux.
Although you do need to first install the huge Mozilla before compiling Skipstone, the light Gecko engine is all that is used, and that gives you a small, fast browser that has the industries' best standards support, including SSL.
I am going to set up my Linux kit tonight, and give compiling Mozilla and SkipStone a shot.