Hi Clarence,
Clarence Verge wrote:
>>I can now confirm that the strange problem Arachne 1.6b1 has with egghead is
NOT limited to VGA - it also occurs in EGA.
Check out www.egghead.com with 1.6b1. A few seconds after the page starts to
load, Arachne appears to switch to fullscreen mode. No title or URL bar, and
no TCP/IP time display. The status bar remains.
This page presents NO problem to Arachne 1.50b2.<<
I just went to egghead and did not have this problem. However, when I hit
<ALT>H to hang up, a .GIF image appeared in the upper left corner of an
otherwise black screen.
>>Also, while testing at this site from my home, since my mouse driver refused
to load because it couldn't find a mouse, I had to view the page source (F6)
to find the URL for "Computer Products".
When I hit ESC to leave that source display, Arachne went back to the PREVIOUS
URL (Yahoo) - not to the egghead page I was viewing. This can be especially
annoying because to return to that egghead page (if it was REALLY necessary)
would take more than a minute JUST TO RENDER !! Home computer is a 20Mhz '386
!<<
Do you have ESC set up in ARACHNE.CFG for "Back" or to "Exit?" Actually, you
could leave the page source by hitting F6 again. However, this loads the
previous page from [RAM] disk.
>>On the same point as the above, when you altH to hang up, Arachne, for no
useful reason, RELOADS the current page from cache. On the Computer Products
page this takes 3 minutes and 11 seconds !!! On my home computer. :-((
This last problem may not be new, but it sure makes the veins stand out on my
forehead. <G> <<
Actually, I don't like this feature either, but some members of the list have
asked for this so that they could read the page offline. I preferred the
previous method of returning to the dial-up page when hitting <ALT>H. It
was a way of letting me know when I had successfully hung-up. I could always
go back to the last loaded page from the dial-up page by hitting <CTRL>LEFT
ARROW. I know that Michael P. can't satisfy everyone, so maybe there could
be an option in the Setup so that the user could select what he/she wanted;
similar to the setup for the ESC key being either "Back" or "Exit."
This is annoying to me, but not a bug that needs Michael's immediate
attention.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
