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- From: mike@larry.utah.com (Mike Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AWeb (dislikes and what should be fixed ;)
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:15:44 -0700
- Organization: Stick on a String, Inc.
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- Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
- : Flexy (starecjc@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE) wrote:
- :
- : > Why shouldnt a webbrowser like ibrowse or aweb not implement such
- : > protocols (gopher://, ftp://, news:// etc.) also ?
- :
- : True, it would be much nicer to have it all in one that 500 different
- : programs. At least for the basics, another of one Netscapes success
- : probably. The sensible is build in, and you can plugin the more extreme.
-
- I disagree- I'd _MUCH_ rather use one client to browse the web, another
- to read news, yet another to read mail, etc. I liked Netscrape so much
- better when it was just a browser, and when it took up "only" two megs of
- disk space (The newest version uses over four).
-
- In addition to the savings in memory (and consequently execution speed),
- with separate clients, each client can focus on what it's good at, and a
- user can pick and choose which he wants to run. Maybe I don't like the
- built-in newsreader that came with web browser X. What are my options then?
-
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