I must apologize to every member of this list. My 'bug fixed' message
should have been kept 'off list'.
Michael was 100% correct by 'chastising' me.
I promise not to do it again.
That said, I'll comment on your comments. <g>
Rest assured that Michael *IS* working to make Arachne a 'real alternative'
to the big browsers.
As for what should be changed and how things should be done.
IMO, Michael's word..... IS LAW.
Please remember, Arachne is his baby.
As for "wasting good work" as you put it.
By no means has Michael wasted anything.
I have no doubts that he'll find a better way of accessing 'very long URLs'
than the way I did it.
FWIW, My URLsize "bug fix" has been proven to be a very bad idea.
I doubt that anyone here wants Arachne to use 9kb more memory
due to one of my 'fixes'. <g>
I'll bet you dollars-to-donuts that Michael has already found
a better 'fix' than mine. :)
In closing,
Michael is right.
I was wrong.
(please make any replies to this message directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Thank you.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:48:31 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 01:08:44 +0200 (CEST), Michael Polak wrote:
>> Please don't confuse people: you fixed the bug only for yourself. This
>> will be true only if Arachne is open source and your contribution is
>> accepted, etc.
>> (....)
>> Maybe we can change STRINGSIZE to 42, but not to 80: it is used many
>> times, and DOS memory is too limited for such wasting. Same with
>> URLsize: we can increase it maybe to 300, but definitely not 1024.
> If that's true, then it seems to me that Arachne is forever destined
> to be known as 'NOT a proper browser', since it will never be able to
> access perfectly ordinary sites (albeit with long addresses) that cause
> other browsers no trouble at all.
> Call me a cynic, but that hardly seems sound business sense.... It
> also seems to waste some good work done by Glenn. One final thought: if
> there's a standard for things like the length of address that a browser
> should support, shouldn't Arachne be altered to comply?
> Just my view, of course!
> Ron.
> - -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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