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- From: lars@mistral.co.uk (Lars Janssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Battle of the Browsers!
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 22:08:02 GMT
- Organization: Mistral Internet (Brighton)
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- Mark van der Molen (elvis@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
- >
- > >PROS
- >
- > > - Simple to install and configure. Good documentation.
- >
- > Installer does not work on my setup, but still easy to set up
-
- That's curious...
- >
- > > - 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
-
- Indeed... the above paragraph was copied and pasted from the IBrowse
- "pros" section. I thought it worth mentioning even though both
- browsers can do it, because it's so useful, and a new feature for
- Amiga web browsers. :-)
-
- > > - 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)
-
- That's not what I've experienced, although to be honest the
- difference isn't that great on my setup. What I have noticed is that
- resizing windows seems to be slower with MUI. I'm running a 640x512
- 256 colour screen with AGA BTW.
-
- > > - 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 ?
-
- The main argument for using one or the other is speed as far as I'm
- concerned, although other issues have been raised before such as
- consistency. If it turns out that MUI is faster, then so be it, but
- it's not central to my comparison between the two web browsers. MUI
- has been discussed at length before.
-
- > 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.
-
- I agree both web browsers are easy enough to set up and use for the
- average user, but I did find that changing the screen properties for
- IBrowse required going through more steps. And yes, it would make it
- harder for beginners to get up and running with IBrowse (there are
- still plenty of newcomers to the Amiga as well as the 'net).
-
- > >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
-
- I would put that down to its early stage of development... they
- haven't got around to finding all the bugs which only show up on
- certain setups perhaps. For me, every version so far has been
- unreliable, and I've not been using it as my main web browser.
-
- Still, I *am* very interested in how it's shaping up... as I am with
- AWeb (you never know, I might end up buying both!)
-
- Lars.
-
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