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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:58:34 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4j1olq$e7g@serpens.rhein.de>
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- perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Yes. That's about as slow as MUI.
-
- >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)
-
- Are you running Executive ? I don't experience any kind of sluggishness
- and the gadgets are responsive.
-
- That's unlike any MUI code that stops reacting to gadget clicks when the
- machine is busy.
-
- >> o The HTML-2 standard is fully supported, including forms.
-
- >Its a pity classact doesn't support patching of editing hooks (=no paste
- >in forms)
-
- It is a pitty that classact doesn't support pasting.
-
- >> o AWeb is FAST. Tests show that AWeb is much faster than IBrowse, and
- >> slightly faster than Mindwalker and even ALynx.
-
- >Could we see some numbers please?
-
- Difficult. AWeb isn't really faster doing things, but it removes most
- of the waiting times since page display starts as soon as data exists and
- several URLs are resolved in parallel.
- Obviously it cannot magically speed up the datatypes that render images.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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