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- From: elvis@stack.urc.tue.nl (Mark van der Molen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Battle of the Browsers!
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 07:39:38 GMT
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <3621.6658T1133T1717@stack.urc.tue.nl>
- References: <4j4tq3$349@news.mistral.co.uk>
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-
- On 25-Mar-96 02:44:35 Lars Janssen (lars@mistral.co.uk) wrote :
-
- >AWEB
- >----
- >(first public release, version 1.0)
- >Available from Aminet sites in the comm/tcp directory.
- >Look out for the replacement icon "aweblogo.iff" uploaded separately.
-
- >PROS
-
- > - Simple to install and configure. Good documentation.
-
- Installer does not work on my setup, but still easy to set up
-
- > - Opens multiple network connections, to help make the most of your
- > available bandwidth, especially with slower sites. Displays pages
- > as they download.
-
- Ibrowse does this too
-
- > - Renders HTML 2 pefectly (as far as I've been able to tell so
- > far), making it ideal for testing your pages for suitability on a
- > range of platforms. Proper handling of white space makes the
- > layout of pages far more attractive. (This means a lot to me
- > because I work in publishing...)
-
- > - Fast - redrawing, scrolling etc. is noticably quicker than
- > IBrowse. Downloading a page with several inline images is at
- > least as fast as IBrowse.
-
- Scrolling is as slow, and sometimes even slower than ibrowse(both running on a
- 64 color screen)
-
- > - Menus - while IBrowse has a good set of options, AWeb's are
- > more comprehensive and intuitive, and there seem to be more
- > options availble. To paraphrase the documentation, it *was* much
- > easier to get AWeb to run on my preferred screen type (not to
- > mention remember the window position!) than with IBrowse.
-
- The aweb gui uses BOOPSI, because MUI would be too slow.Using both Ibrowse and
- Aweb I find Aweb's screen redraw is much slower than Ibrowse's.So what's the
- advantage of BOOPSI ?
- On the other hand in mui you can select to use BOOPSI images too.Getting
- Ibrowse to run on it's own screen is dead simple if you know how to use mui.
- But i think it would be more difficult if you have just started using MUI,
- then ppl have to learn using Ibrowse as well as MUI.
-
-
- > - It's easier to get hold of as it's been released on Aminet. Plus
- > you don't need MUI, so if you don't have that you'll find getting
- > AWeb much less painfull than getting IBrowse.
-
- >CONS
-
- > - Doesn't allow CycleToMenu to work (turns cycle gadgets into
- > pop-up menus, a bit like on the Mac). The author doesn't like
- > these, which is fair enough. But I do, so it would be nice to
- > keep 'em for anyone who's installed CycleToMenu if possible. :-)
-
- Hmmm...i think cycletomenu works with Aweb here, i'll check that later.
-
-
- >Phew, I guess that's enough! I'm sure I've missed something
- >important but what the hell...
-
- >IBrowse has more good features, but also (understandably) more bugs.
- >For a version which admits to being far from finished it's very good.
- >If I'm not mistaken, the people behind IBrowse used to work on
- >AMosaic. Amosaic went through several versions before it was
- >truly reliable... let's hope the finished IBrowse is stable too.
-
- Ibrowse has been very stable here, only the veryfirst release version crashed
- all the time
-
- >WHICH IS BEST FOR ME?
-
- >If you like a good-looking program with the latest HTML features,
- >you'll like the current version of IBrowse. If reliability is more
- >important, you'll probably prefer to stick with AWeb for now.
-
- >Me? I still use my trusty ALynx 90% of the time. :-)
-
- >Lars.
-
- Mark
-
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