Portable HTML Viewer for Placing in Folders (like 1 by 1)

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This post is about HTML viewers, but it's inspired by the 1 by 1 MP3
player. I like how 1 by 1 is a tiny, no-install program, and you can just
move a copy of the exe to any number of folders, and play your songs from
those folders.

But back to the topic at hand...for viewing large numbers of saved HTML
files (rendered HTML, as in your browser), I normally use FMedit98. This
is an old file manager that works great for my purposes, but to get to the
folder you want, you have to browse. I want the same ability to view HTML
files in rapid succession...with an ability to delete...but without such an
awkward form of navigation. And I want it to be a small, no-install
program.

I seriously doubt anything like this exists, but the fact that small
browsers like Off By One exist, suggest it might be doable. Hence my
reason for asking. :)
 
jason said:
I want the same ability to view HTML
files in rapid succession...with an ability to delete...but without such an
awkward form of navigation. And I want it to be a small, no-install
program.

I seriously doubt anything like this exists, but the fact that small
browsers like Off By One exist, suggest it might be doable. Hence my
reason for asking. :)
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I am not sure this will be of any use to you but anyway.

There is an enormous number of freeware, and often open source,
available as addons and plugins for Total Commander.

One of them is the wlx_ieweblister_1.01.zip, a mini web page viewer.

Even if you do not use Total Commander you could use this file if you
know some script language which can use functions in .dll files, like
for example windows powerpro.

The wlx files which are addons and plugins for TC are actually dll
files. I renamed this to dll and looked at it in resource hacker.

It shows, anyway, that it is possible to write a good html viewer in a
less than 500k dll file.
I just used it to open a html file on my hd, and clicked on a download
link in it, and downloaded that file from the web.
So it works both online and offline, but you have to start offline if
you use it as viewer for TC, because there is no way to give it an url
other than by clicking a link in a html page.
If used by a scripting language it should work as both.
I think it is better and faster than 1by1.
 
Roger said:
There is an enormous number of freeware, and often open source,
available as addons and plugins for Total Commander.

One of them is the wlx_ieweblister_1.01.zip, a mini web page viewer.

Even if you do not use Total Commander you could use this file if you
know some script language which can use functions in .dll files, like
for example windows powerpro.

The wlx files which are addons and plugins for TC are actually dll
files. I renamed this to dll and looked at it in resource hacker.

It shows, anyway, that it is possible to write a good html viewer in a
less than 500k dll file.
I just used it to open a html file on my hd, and clicked on a download
link in it, and downloaded that file from the web.
So it works both online and offline, but you have to start offline if
you use it as viewer for TC, because there is no way to give it an url
other than by clicking a link in a html page.
If used by a scripting language it should work as both.
I think it is better and faster than 1by1.
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That sounds cool. I wonder who could do the hacking to make it work?
I'm not a programmer, so the talk of "scripting language" scares me. ;)
 
jason said:
That sounds cool. I wonder who could do the hacking to make it work?
I'm not a programmer, so the talk of "scripting language" scares me. ;)
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I am too lazy. And I don't need it because I use Total Commander.
I just know that it is possible because I am present in the powerpro
group and they use many kinds of dll files in that way.

Every dll file is actually a bunch of routines which an external program
can call, and it sends the result back to the calling program, or
script.

For example they use a freeware regex dll by sending a regex expression
to it and a file to search through, and it sends back the findings.

If I knew just a little bit more I could have explained the details and
described what script language would be easiest to use.

Find a bunch of script guys and ask them if you want to take it one step
further.

I am thinking about setting up a html file locally with links to google
and a few other places, so I can use this viewer in TC as an online web
browser too.
 
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