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- From: perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 18:16:46 GMT
- Organization: The Shadows' Parking lot
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- Yvon Rozijn (yrozijn@xs4all.nl) wrote:
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- > Announce: AWeb 1.0 is released!
- > ===============================
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- Hurray!
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- > It offers the following features:
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- > o AWeb doesn't use Magical User Interface (MUI). It uses BOOPSI classes
- > instead, which results in less memory usage and increased speed.
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- Are you sure about the speed? It takes several seconds from selecting the
- settings window to it actually comming up. And in 'change settings'
- window, when you click on the "chooser" gadget there is a very perceptible
- dealy before the window changes.
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- > o AWeb uses extensive internal multitasking, which leads to total
- > asynchroneous and parallel network access. Images are starting to load
- > while the document is still loading. It is possible to follow a link
- > while the previous document is still loading. A separate network status
- > window shows all pending network and local file accesses. All network
- > accesses can be interrupted immediately.
-
- Except that's not really the case quite often is it? The stop gadget is
- ghosted, and when it (apparently) starts to decode 10 images at the same
- time, the machine becomes so sluggish it's not even possible to click on
- the stop gadgets...(in network window)
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- > o The HTML-2 standard is fully supported, including forms.
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- Its a pity classact doesn't support patching of editing hooks (=no paste
- in forms)
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- > o AWeb is FAST. Tests show that AWeb is much faster than IBrowse, and
- > slightly faster than Mindwalker and even ALynx.
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- Could we see some numbers please?
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