John Sparks wrote:
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> Having now spent a few hours browsing on-line with Arachne 1.66 I did
> encounter more problems than expected (some may be set-up related) I am,
> unfairly, comparing Arachne with MSIE 5.0 / MS-DOS5 / Win3.1 being in the
> fortunate position of having a PC just about capable of that
> (486 DX2 50MHz 16MB)
> Problems included:
> - Overall Arachne is slower (which surprised me) though not too bad
> with simple pages.
Yes, Arachne is slower than it should be. The solution is to run it on a
ramdisk. You have plenty of memory. Allocate 5 or 6 Mbs to a ramdisk.
There is a (rather complicated) howto on the subject. See Aramdisk.txt.
> - More than 50% of the web site index pages I tried gave problems
> ranging from no disply (cart.com) through missing information or
> unwanted switching between an OK display to advert banner only
> (formula1.com) to minor problems with text and background colours
> nearly matching (space.com) Deja and Compuserve forums failed with
> error indications (cookies with the former)
You are going to find a lot of bad websites with any browser, but the ones
that use too much javascript will work poorly with Arachne. Some js support
is coming in next release I think.
> I had another (self induced?) problem. Had extrated an html bookmark
> file from MSIE and added this to A's hotlist. This did not achieve the
> desired result but otherwise the hotlist was OK until it went missing!
> (Arachne error screen and couldn't find file in DOS) After creating a
> new hotlist file, all was OK including MSIE bookmarks.
You would do better just to put a pointer to your IE favorites in the Arachne
hotlist instead of trying to import it.
> I suspect that Arachne mail compares more favourably with my MS Outlook
> Express set-up but havn't done much with it yet.
It compares fairly well with Netscape mail. The Arachne reader is actually
better - and the composer works ok with a little customization, but it is
awkward to flip between the composer and some reference page.
I presume you have already seen the post(s) on how to use WHOIS to get
DNS numbers.
- Clarence Verge
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