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- From: jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Does AWeb Work?
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 05:41:56 GMT
- Organization: Asbury Park Press
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- Mike Williams (mikew@net-link.net) wrote:
-
- > In article <4j5afj$k37@news.injersey.com> jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy ) writes:
- > > So I downloaded AWeb. Ran it. Looks nice. No MUI. (Love that ClassAct popup
- > > menu.) It works like a charm on local files. Stable in ways AMosaic never
- > > was. I abused it a bit to make sure it wasn't going to take down my system.
- > > It passed the test.
- > >
- [snipped my own long description of not getting AWeb to work]
- > > I haven't gotten it to load a single complete file over the network yet. I
- > > figure this has to be just me. What do I do?
- > >
- > I've found it pretty stable also. I happen to like MUI, so the interface is a
- > lot more boring than I'm used to (I'm coming from IBrowse). A slight problem
- > I've noticed is that while it's attempting to load all pieces of the document at
- > once, each one loads very slow. It can take a long time before you actually see
- > much of anything. I looked at one page that had about 6 big JPEG's in it, and it
- > took several minutes after everything had made it across the wires before I saw
- > anything. Of course IBrowse does the same thing, but it's a bit more linear so
- > you actually see one of the pictures much more quickly. Would reducing the number
- > of network connections help with this problem? The homepage I use has a big GIF
- > imagemap (or maybe it's a JPEG, not sure) that sends you to most of the other
- > attractions. With AWeb the map seems to be the last thing to come up. Is there,
- > perhaps a way to load maps first then continue to load the other images?
-
- Actually, there is exactly that--an option to load only image maps, and
- delay all others.
-
- But, as I said in my original post, I tried setting network connections
- to one, and it still wouldn't load a page. It loads maybe halfway, then
- completely stops. I'm still convinced it's just me, or my network
- connection, but I just wanted to see if others were having the same
- problem before I go hacking away at my system configuration or screaming
- at my ISP.
-
- Jeremy
- jeremyn@injersey.com
-
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