What about a web browser in Rockbox?

[Delta009]

Hi! 

Maybe I'm raving, but here's a suggestion of improvement that could be added to Rockbox.

I talked recently with the proud owner of an iPod touch. We were discussing the functionalities of our respective MP3 players.

On his iPod touch, he could zoom on pictures, write stuff, play games; he had picture flow, album art, etc.

Thanks to Rockbox, I have also all those functionalities on my iPod video.

However, there is one cool thing that he could do with his iPod touch and that I couldn't do: surfing on the Internet. 

Okay, okay... our cheap-but-pimped-out MP3 players don't have a wifi functionality, I admit it.

However, wouldn't it be possible to use the USB connector to detect an LAN connection on the computer in which it is plugged ?

Because our MP3 players don't have a lot of memory, we could just port a text web browser to Rockbox.

Wait! To all the Linux users out there : don't you know any open source text web browser ? Of course, there is www-browser, and all its forks !

Don't you think it would be funny (but totally useless) to port a lightweight text web browser to Rockbox ?

I know you'd love to !

Thank you for reading my wild ideas,

Delta 

P.S.: Attached is a screenshot of rockbox.org viewed in www-browser running in a console on my computer.

[saratoga]

We usually don't allow feature suggestions on the forums.

Also, this would be a lot of work for something thats essentially not useful.  I doubt anyone is going to be interested unless you're willing to do it yourself.  Though feel free to put this on the feature request tracker.

[AlexP]

Why not use the web browser of the PC you have plugged the DAP into?  It has a bigger screen, proper keyboard, mouse, is faster, more memory..........