Hello and welcome to Hyper Browser (HB)

HB is a text only (at present) HTML browser and HTML to plain text converter for the QDOS and RISC OS computers. It is at an early stage in it's development, so watch out for more features and other improvements. HB may form the bases of an Internet suite. HB is base on XHTML 1.0 but does not fully implement this, CSS is not supported.

The keys

Arrow/Cursor keys to move the cursor, you use these to move the cursor over the desired hyperlink (coloured red, as mode 4 has no blue colour). Then you press enter to follow the link. Try this link. Pressing CRTL, and up or down cursor keys, moves the view of the webpage up or down by a full screen. Pressing Shift, and up or down cursor keys, moves the view by a line only, instead of a whole screen full. Numeric keypad users can also use 8=up, 2=down, 4=left, 6=right, 9=View PageUp ,3=View PageDown, 7=View Up 1 line,1=View Down 1 line. The key r refreshs the display. You press q to quit. If you see some text in green with braces around it, it is a image and can be viewed by pressing i. You need a copy of Photon in the same place as the rest of HB for this to work. The call a graphics file viewer call photon. If the image is to big to fit on the screen you can use the arrow keys to scroll. To go back to the HB press esc to exit Photon, the screen will go blank at this point. Then ctrl-c to give HB the focus followed by Enter to continue. If an image is also underlined it means it is also a hyper link. All character keys are case insensitive.

As a fuller demonstration of HB try a real issue of RUNG (RISC OS User, Norfolk Group) official journal RUNG News which is in HTML. The magazine has been updated to conform to XHTML-1.0.