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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 11:30:16 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
- Message-ID: <2397.6670T1176T302@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article "Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!" G. Baldwin said:
-
- >Terry Fry (mafutha@cris.com) wrote:
- >: AWeb is noce but it isn't that perfect. Just go to http://www.cnn.com/ And
- >: compare the CNN page with aweb and ibrowse. You'll see that aweb doesn't
- >: show all the page but ibrowse does. AWeb is stable but I prefer to see all
- >: the page that's there.
-
- >AWeb does not do Netscape tags ("NHTML") yet. The author is FULLY aware
- >of this and has stated that it will be in AWeb 1.1.
-
- >One of the reasons AWeb is so stable is because the author took a course
- >that was opposite of AMosaic and IBrowse. He made sure that his browser
- >was fairly stable before he released it.
-
-
- IBrowse hasn't been released yet... they are still in the beta stage.
-
-
- >If you all remember, AMosaic 1.2 was not very stable when it first came
- >out, yet instead of fixxing the bugs and rereleasing it, he fixed some
- >bugs and just heaped in a shitload of new and buggy features. What we
- >were left with is a browser line that was ALWAYS buggy. By the time
- >AMosaic 2.0pre came out, most people were running ALynx or Netscape 1.2 on
- >SS.
-
- >Now lets look at AWeb 0.5. It had almost no features yet it was stable.
- >The official 1.0 release has full HTML 2.0 support, hot lists, and much
- >configurabilty. He even added that network status window (very slick). I
- >think in the 40+ continuous hours that I was netsurfing with it, it locked
- >up only twice and crashed the machine only once. Try to do that with
- >IBrowse.
-
-
- Only if you pay the bill :)
-
-
- >The author of AWeb has put a lot of work into AWeb in a short amount of
- >time. HTML 3 and NHTML support should be just around the corner.
-
-
- I think it's gtear, but I still use both... it's AWeb when I can't afford a
- crash, though, and IBrowse when I need those extra graphix. But if AWeb is
- going to sell to non-experienced amigans it needs a lot more cosmetics -
- that's a big part of what's selling WinSnooze and Macs.
-
-
- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
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