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In article <ant2210270b0$FjJ@beard.demon.co.uk>, Peter Gaunt
<URL:mailto:pete@beard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <ant2200531cbyEu2@bellacat.demon.co.uk>, A.M.Quinn
> <URL:mailto:arthur@bellacat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > In release II of the Ant suite, The web browser, Fresco has been spoiled so
> > that it has become very very slow. It now takes over a minute on a RPC700 to
> > format and display a 60k text only page read from the local filing system.
> > While it is formatting, Fresco fails to multi-task to the extent e.g of
> > stopping the seconds counter in !Alarm for extended periods. Ant say that
> > they know about this and will fix it in about two weeks. Maybe they will.
> 
> Oh, they will. All they did was to leave the debugging code in so it
> shouldn't be really a major problem to fix it. The final beta version, was
> pretty fast so I'd expect the fixed version of 1.28 to be so too. OK, so
> they made a bit of an embarassing boo-boo, but that can happen to anyone
> can't it?
> 
> Other than the speed of news downloads (and the unfortunate problem with the
> current Fresco) I find the Suite rather good though, as with every piece of
> software, there are areas in which it could be improved (a lot of them just
> down to personal preference).
> 

I am glad to hear that the source of the problem is so simple - cheering
news.

The previous version of Fresco was very good. I had been using it to view a
technical manual I have been writing in HTML and I had been particularly
pleased with the way it handled multiple large .GIF files (1653 X 1170, 4bpp
- representing A3 circuit diagrams scaled from 300dpi to 100dpi in ChangeFSI
with a consequent increase in bit depth).

If my posting seemed negative, put it down to software user's despair. Ant
didn't tell me that the problem was due to such a simple error and the result
is pretty catastrophic.


Arthur