On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I had my try with Warpzilla, the OS/2 Warp 4 port of Mozilla. Prereleases of
> M17 crashed on takeoff, and after reading about how slow the final M17 was, I
> gave up on it.
The only one I tried before M18 was M12. I never could get that
one to run. Even with M18, the first time I ran it as a user, it
crashed. I ran it as root - it worked. Then I ran it as a user
again - this time it worked.
> I noticed the bloated requirements for the Linux version, and
> wondered what was supposed to be the advantage over Netscape Communicator.
> Warpzilla download was 14 MB.
I think the advantage is that Mozilla more strictly adheres to
the HTML standard than Netscape Navigator. Even something as
simple as table cells without margins or cellspacing is now
rendered "properly" in Mozilla where it wasn't in Netscape.
I have a screenshot up that I made for different purposes, but
it demonstrates the point:
http://twovoyagers.com/devel/screenshot_ns.png
(you don't want to know how long it took to create that, with
Netscape 3.04, Netscape 4.75, Mozilla 5.0-M18, and GIMP... among
other things... all running at the same time in 32MB!)
> Aren't both Java and Javascript interpreted languages as is Perl?
Yes. Netscape & Mozilla have both interpreters built-in.
> C, C++, and
> Ada are highly portable languages with compilers.
Perhaps not so "highly" portable. After all, why is there such
a disparity between DOS Arachne and Linux Arachne. If C is so
portable, it should be a trivial matter to simply compile the same
source using a compiler for a different platform.
OTOH, write a script which adheres to the JS 1.2 standard, and
it will run equally well on any application on any platform that
has a 1.2 compliant interpreter... not that I'm any fan of JS, mind
you.
> Maybe there is a future for Arachne. People who don't have enough space to
> really install Linux can use Basic Linux or something similar.
Is space really a serious consideration any more? In '93 I
bought a 234MB drive for $325. I bought a 10.2GB drive for $69 in
'00. The cost of hard drive storage has gone from $1.38/MB to less
than 0.7 CENTS per MB... or put the other way around, a dollar in
'93 would buy you 720K, while a dollar today will buy 147MB.
From my perspective, space isn't nearly the consideration that
speed is. I don't care if a program takes 20MB as long as it does
its job FAST!
I guess that's why typing or clicking 'netscape' still brings up
Netscape 3.04 on my machine. It's the fastest one there is that
still has nearly all the functionality I need...
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