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Re: Battle of the Browsers!

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From: Frank Wille
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 16:34
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Lars Janssen wrote on 26 Mar 1996 22:08:02 GMT
about "Re: Battle of the Browsers!" :


LJ> Mark van der Molen (elvis@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
LJ> > [...AWeb...]
LJ> > >PROS
LJ> > 
LJ> > > - Simple to install and configure. Good documentation.
LJ> > 
LJ> > Installer does not work on my setup, but still easy to set up
LJ> 
LJ> That's curious...

Same here. The installer script quits, because it can't locate the
muimaster.library. I have it, of course, but not in SYS:Libs.


LJ> > > - Fast - redrawing, scrolling etc. is noticably quicker than
LJ> > > IBrowse. Downloading a page with several inline images is at least
LJ> > > as fast as IBrowse.
LJ> > 
LJ> > Scrolling is as slow, and sometimes even slower than ibrowse(both
LJ> > running on a 64 color screen)
LJ> 
LJ> That's not what I've experienced, although to be honest the difference
LJ> isn't that great on my setup. What I have noticed is that resizing
LJ> windows seems to be slower with MUI. I'm running a 640x512 256 colour
LJ> screen with AGA BTW.

Scrolling of AWeb is also *much* faster than IBrowse on my system
(CV64, 1024x768, 256 colours).


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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:34:52 +0200
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