"Are there tcl/tk scripts for reading web pages?" The answer is that there are many different resources, from one-liners to sophisticated full powered applications. There are a lot of features and preferences, and some limitations that the user might consider as they get started.
Most of these are pretty simple, so the feature lists here is mostly a wish/todo list. The basic features a browser usually provides are html rendering, url following and local hardrive file loading.
Some features to look for are:
Here is a listing of some resources.
What: [Alphatk] (the 'www' menu)
Where: http://www.santafe.edu/%7Evince/Alphatk.html
ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/
Description: Shareware Tcl/Tk based text editor useful for programmers
or someone writing TeX/LaTeX or HTML source files.
The www menu provides text-only web browsing with link colouring, source viewing, frames, limited applet support, and full i18n features. Also user-friendly editing of Wiki pages from within Alphatk.
Designed to run on Windows or Unix platforms, providing functionality
equivalent to Pete Keleher's Alpha editor for MacOS.
Requires Tcl/Tk 8.1.1 or newer.
Runs on Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, XP, Solaris, Linux, MacOS X.
This is release v8.1.
Updated: 03/2002
Updated by: vince
Contact: mailto:[email protected] What: BrowseX [Browsex]
Where: http://BrowseX.com/
Description: Open source, cross-platform web browser written primarily
in Tcl. Comes bundled with Tml, a Tcl based HTML macro processor,
designed to simplify and enhance web authoring. Also includes
database client support for Postgres, as well as a minor widget
collection known as Thin.
This code is free - BrowseX Systems, Inc. does sell a C version
of Tml, as well as TME, a Tml Editor/Composer.
It is currently at release 1.5.0.
Updated: 11/2002
Updated by: sag
Contact: mailto:[email protected]Description: One-line web browser in Tcl. Location: http://mini.net/tcl/2464.html Updated: 03/2002 Updated by: sag
Description: Simple Tkhtml web page displayer
Location: http://mini.net/tcl/2993.html
Updated: 03/2002
Updated by: sag
What: tkHTML
Where: http://www.cobaltgroup.com/%7Eroland/tkHTML/ ????
ftp://ftp.cobaltgroup.com/pub/liem/tkHTML/source/tkHTML-3.21.tar.gz
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW/tools/editing/unix/tkhtml/
Description: Simple HTML editor for X. It has both menu and keystroke
oriented commands to make editing and converting documents to
HTML easier. Current beta provides Tk 4 support.
tkHTML 3.2 is the current release with Tk 4.2 and Tix 4.1 support.
Uses Netscape and Mosaic for previewing - no longer requires wwwish.
Updated: 01/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Liem Bahneman)What: Scout Where: http://www.sanmay.freeserve.co.uk/ Description: WWW browser which uses tkhtml . Updated: 08/2001 Contact: mailto:[email protected]
Description: tclXML tools Location: http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/ Updated: 03/2002 Updated by: sag
Description: Plume (100% tcl/tk) web browser
Location: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/apps/plume-0.6.2/
Updated: 03/2002
Updated by: sag
What: Plume
Where: http://www.zveno.com/open_source/plume.html
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/apps/plume-0.6.2/plume-0.6.2.tar.gz
http://www.glinx.com/%7Ehclsmith/tcltk/plume/ ???
Description: Tcl/Tk WorldWideWeb (WWW) browser.
Supports HTML v1.0 and v2.0, along with a subset of HTML v3.0
tables. Goal is for it to be completely v3.0 compliant. Handles
inline GIF (including transparent GIFs), PPM, and X bitmap images.
Supports older Tcl applets using Jacob Levy's Safe-Tcl extension.
Runs with Tcl/Tk 8.0b1. Dynamically loads tclX and
BLT extensions. Supports CMT's cmplayer.
Note that this program contains a module (prot.tcl) to handle
the HTTP 1.0 protocol. Includes an HTML megawidget which has
table support. Support for XML documents and tcl based DTDs is
also available. Also contains Safe-Tk code.
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Steve Ball)Description: HelpSystem is a Tk/tcl based html help displayer Location: http://midc.miem.edu.ru/HelpSystem/ Updated: 03/2002 Updated by: sag
Description: Web Browser for Agenda VR3 written in Tcl/Tk
Location: http://www.psnw.com/~alcald/tiny_tcl_web_browser.html
Updated: 03/2002
Updated by: sag
What: Agenda port of Tcl/Tk
Where: http://www.desertscenes.net/agenda/
http://www.medmapper.com/root-snow-1.0.1-tcl-web-email.cramfs
http://developer.agendacomputing.com/
Description: Port of Tcl/Tk to the Linux powered Agenda PDA.
Tcl/Tk/Tcl++/html_lbirary/tclmail/etc. have been ported.
A Tcl based WWW browser was written.
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Alexander Caldwell) What: LAPIS
Where: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ercm/lapis/
Description: LAPIS (Lightweight Architecture for Processing Information
Structure) is a tool for lightweight structured text processing.
It is a web browser which can highlight and manipulate regions of
text.
Written in Java, I have been told that the authors have done
some work with Tcl using the Jacl interpreter.
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Rob Miller) What: Netscape client Tcl Tclet (Schelter)
Where: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/netmath/demo/demo.html
Description: Netmath is a web browser with built in plotting facilities
and interface to computation engines.
Updated: 06/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]What: orinoco Where: ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/orinoco-1.0-pre-alpha.tar.gz Description: Tcl/Tk WML browser. Updated: 08/2001 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Lindsay F. Marshall)
What: Phoenix
Where: http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/localfiles/infofiles/phoenix.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/mud/moo-www/rdir/16242.html
http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/%7El-newberg/phoenix-0.1.8.html ???
Description: WWW editor/browser, built upon tkWWW.
A version 0.1.8 was announced in 1995, but that page is no longer
available.
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Lee Newberg) What: Quill
Where: http://www.glinx.com/%7Ehclsmith/tcltk/quill/ ???
http://www.glinx.com/%7Ehclsmith/tcltk/quill/quill-0.14.tar.gz ???
Description: Mostly Tcl/Tk WWW browser.
Updated: 12/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Hume Smith) What: tk WWW interface
Where: ftp://tk-www.mit.edu:8001/tk-www/help/tkWWW-0.13pre2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tkWWW-0.12/tkWWW-0.12.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xli.1.15.tar.Z
Description: A Tk WorldWideWeb (WWW) browser, requires tk 3.x.
It expects to find xli to display external graphic files.
Version 0.13 is intended for use with tk 4.0 and is quite buggy
as of Mar 31 1995. Also, see http://tk-www.mit.edu:8001/.
Updated: 02/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (administration of mailing list)
mailto:[email protected] (WWW Tk Browser Discussion List) What: tkWorld
Where: Currently Unknown >>> found on ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl June 2002
Description: Wes's Own Really Lazy Desktop provides a Tk interface to popular
Unix commands.
Each application's interface has a command center, toolbar and log
window. Currently these applications are developed:
tkFind, tkGrep, tkMake, as well as chmod, mkdir, ps, and rmdir ,
as well as built in dir, ls, and cd commands as well as a number of
other std Unix commands,
tkLB (a little HTML browser),
tkREM (a regular expression maker),
tkSort (a GUI interface to Unix sort),
tkWinstall (GUI install tool, used to install/deinstall tkWorld)
Software is released under the GNU General Public License.
Currently at v1.4.0.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: Wes Bailey - address currently unknown What: Wafe
Where: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/wafe.html
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/www/wafe-packages.html
http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/wafe/wafe.html
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/1.0.19/
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/1.0.19/wafe-1.0.19.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/Xaw3d-1.3.2-src.tar.gz
http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/wafe/Cineast/video.html
http://www.inria.fr/koala/jml/jml.html
Description: Tcl binding to Xt and various widget sets like Athena (Xaw3d),
OSF/Motif (1.1 to 2.0), and others. At the above FTP site are
many other associated tar files, such as Linux binaries, Xaw3d,
documentation, etc. Wafe can be used as a frontend for programs
in abitrary programming languages (there are many example programs
written in Perl contained in the package). As of version v1.0.18
Wafe supports the Kino widget class, Mosaic HTML widget, plotter
widgets, XmGraph widget, Layout widget, tree widget, XbaeMatrix
widget, Ghostview widget, Eurobridge widget, analog clock widget,
most of the FWF widget classes, libWWW, LDAP library and more.
Wafe supports graphic formats such as XBM, XPM, GIF, JPEG,
and PNG. Various object oriented Tcl extensions such as OTcl
or itcl are also supported. SSLEAY is supported. Available in
RedHat's .rpm format. The current version
supports Tcl 8.0, SSL streams, the choice of Tcl
or Xt event loop, as well as a number of new modules. Package
includes cineast, an extensible WWW browser, written using Otcl
and Wafe. Other sample applications, such as htmlEdit, cpu-bars,
gsv, pinger, xwafemail, etc. are also included.
In version v1.0.19, Tcl_Objects are supported, UTF support when
used with Tcl 8.1, Knvas widgets, Kino-2 widgets.
Updated: 06/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (WaFE mailing list) What: WebTk
Where: http://www.tcl.tk/software/webtk/
Description: A Tk HTML editor and browser. It requires Tk 4.1 (FCS) or
greater. There are packages for Unix, Macintosh, and Windows.
The editor supports forms, but not tables and frames.
Provides end-user extensibility and customization. You can
copy and paste text, links and images from live pages from the
web using WebTk's browser features. You can also
chart and validate links on pages.
This beta release is free for a 90 day evaluation period.
Updated: 03/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Brent Welch)TV The files aren't there, I think there has been free version which I liked.
More generally, see http://wiki.tcl.tk/2?browser
TkGecko and NewzPoint deserve mention, as does the "One-line web browser in Tcl". Which was the first Tk Web browser? It was quite early ...