"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:vince.darley@kagi.com
Description: One-line web browser in Tcl.
Location: http://wiki.tcl.tk/2464
Updated: 03/2002
Updated by: sag
Description: Simple Tkhtml web page displayer
Location: http://wiki.tcl.tk/2993
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:roland@cobaltgroup.com (Liem Bahneman)
What: Scout
Where: http://www.sanmay.freeserve.co.uk/
Description: WWW browser which uses tkhtml .
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: mailto:hbyers@sanmay.freeserve.co.uk
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 (Link not found!)
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/ ??? (Link not found!)
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:Steve.Ball@zveno.com (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:alcald@psnw.com (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:rcm@cs.cmu.edu (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:wfs@math.utexas.edu
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:Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
(
[Piotr Zaprawa
]) email from LM:
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 16:12:08 +0100
From: Lindsay Marshall <Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk>
To: xxx
Subject: RE: orinoco flow...
Sorry, I stopped work on that years ago - wml is a complete dead end!
L.
Phoenix
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:hclsmith.delete@glinx.delete.com (Hume Smith)
tkWWW
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:wafe@wu-wien.ac.at (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:welch@acm.org (Brent Welch)
TV The files aren't there, I think there has been free version which I liked.
What: htmlview.tcl: A simple HTML viewer
Where: http://www.msen.com/~clif/HtmlView.html
Description: The htmlview.tcl program will open a window on your display,
and render html text from a file or stdin. It's a small, simple
html viewer that can be used with elm, pine, etc for reading
text/html messages. The Version 1 htmlview.tcl program will
display the text in a message, but does not load images from
the web, or support any hypertext links. It's strictly a
viewer. The Version 2 htmlview.tcl will download images when
the image tag is clicked, and will load hypertext references
when clicked.
Updated: 01/2000
Contact: mailto:clif@cflynt.com
More generally, see
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2?browserTkGecko and
NewzPoint deserve mention, as does the "
One-line web browser in Tcl". Which was the first Tk Web browser? It was quite early ...
SurfIt! is a World Wide Web user agent (aka browser) which has been implemented entirely using Tcl/Tk script code. It supports most of the features usually found in Web browsers today - document retrieval using the HTTP protocol, graphical display of HTML documents, inline graphics, hypertext navigation, and so on. SurfIt! also includes many standard browser features such as local caching of documents, incremental document loading and display and concurrent document downloading. As a Tk application, it is easy to construct applications which can communicate with SurfIt!, using the send command, to implement the concept of hypertools. SurfIt! provides direct support for creating tools such as these.
- HTML v2.0 (RFC 1866) compliant.
- partial implementation of HTML v3.2 [Raggett96c].
- partial implementation of TABLE draft specification [Raggett96a].
- GIF, PPM and X bitmap graphics formats supported and may be inlined. Support for JPEG graphics format has been prototyped, but requires a robust photo image type format handler.
- Network protocol handlers for HTTP v1.0 and FTP. file: and mailto: URLs are also supported.
- Asynchronous, concurrent document downloading with incremental document display.
- .mailcap processing for "Helper Applications".
Tcl'96 paper: [
1]
Available at: [
2]
