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AWeb- my thoughts

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From: Noah I Rosenberg
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:52
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	Well, after getting AWeb all fixed up (which was really a problem
with the datatypes, not with AWeb [it crashed multiview as well]), I surfed
the web for a while. Like about 3 hours. I've never used Netscape for more
than about 30 minutes without it crashing on me. I was impressed.


	First off, I have an A1200 with an MX1230A 030/50/50/4. I also have
a 14.4 modem. I was using Amitcp 4.0 demo.


	First off I noticed that AWeb's interface was clean and well-laid
out. It lacks those quick-start buttons like on Netscape, and all the icons
are grouped over on the side. I like that.

	The online documentation covers everything. Real nice, decently
thorough...

	Okay but how does it perform? Well, at 14.4, decently. A LOT better
than IBrowse (although granted I've never used IBrowse for more than a
fewminutes at a time as it always crashes on me). Thankfully AWeb doesn't
use MUI, so it goes nice and speedy on my system. ONe thing I did notice was
that the settings menu was weird. I'd select it and then have to wait for a
few seconds for it to pop up. slightly annoying. And then after a few hours
the settings menu just stopped even popping up. Weird.


	AWeb has full multithreading support. It also has this cool window
that shows what it's doing. So you can see what files are loading and being
processed.. I like that, it makes the wait a lot less tedious. 


	I didn't get a chance to check out any tables yet though, I guess I
didn't really run into any.

	ONe weird thing I did notice was that AWeb wasn't loading
backgrounds. Mebbe I had the settings wrong or something. I should look into
that..



	All in all, it got the job done. It's nothing too spiffy or fancy
but it does do it's job well. All in all I'd say it's a solid web browser,
but at 14.4, and without a graphics card, I pretty much just think of it as
a clickable, better layed-out version of lynx ;) (i.e. better for text than
images).


What did you all think of it?


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From: integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: AWeb- my thoughts
Date: 23 Mar 1996 09:52:22 GMT
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