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- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
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- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 07 Apr 1996 19:24:42 +0300
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- In-reply-to: mafutha@cris.com's message of 6 Apr 1996 05:20:01 GMT
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- In article <827.6670T5T2200@cris.com> mafutha@cris.com (Terry Fry) writes:
- >>>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.
- >The fact that AWeb doesn't show all the page is a negative to the program.
- >Ibrowse does have some bugs but it supports page viewing much better. So I use
- >both depending on my mode......
-
- I had a look at www.cnn.com. AWeb does not show "all" the page because
- it is a quality parser, and shows exactly what it SHOULD be
- showing. That IBrowse shows more is a side effect of it being
- similarly buggy as Netscape is, and because of that, showing things it
- should not show.
-
- You mean the way the "story" part (today: Crash victims' families
- mourn at somber Dover ceremeny) is missing when viewed in AWeb? Switch
- the parser mode to "compatible", aka. bug-emulation. This is the
- Control/HTML Mode menu option. The reason the strict mode does not
- show it is because all of that stuff is in fact within an SGML
- comment, and a browser that properly parses HTML *is supposed to* hide
- all of it. That CNN's front page contains such crap is a testimony to
- the unprofessionalism of their WWW maintainers.
-
- Do not blame AWeb for being better than other browsers. Yes, it has
- it's lackings, most importantly it does not even attempt to lay out
- tables, but those are not part of HTML 2.0, and thus it is not even
- supposed to do that. I'm certain that when AWeb does support tables,
- it will do that with the same uncompromising quality as it does
- everything else.
-
- I'm sure next someone will complain that AWeb shows weird "programming
- stuff" in the text while other browsers don't. Again, that will be
- because unprofessional site adminstrators add JavaScript code to their
- pages and fail to test the page with anything but Netscape, which does
- not parse SGML comments correctly.
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