On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Steve Linux User wrote:
> >
> > Netscape 3.04 on my machine. It's the fastest one there is that
> > still has nearly all the functionality I need...
>
> It's nice to know that you, and other people, take the time to see if newer
> is really better. Too bad we few can't affect world trends. <g>
>
> I agree, reluctantly, that NS3.04 has about all the necessary functionality.
> But NS2.02 also has all the above except the newer version of js support and
> is 1/2 the size. In spite of the fact that you don't care how big it is as
> long as it runs fast, size does matter.
Netscape 3.04 is fast becoming obsoleted by the widespread
use of JavaScript 1.2. Whereas JS errors are happily ignored
by Netscape 4.x, 3.04 reports them in detail.
If I've enabled JS for some reason and go to a JS 1.2 site,
I often have to click dozens of JavaScript error boxes before
I can do a single thing... even before I can disable JS.
> Speed seems to be directly related to size.
> Probably because size is directly related to sloppy programming.
> The bigger it is, the slower it is. NS2.02 is twice as fast as NS3.04.
As I reported earlier, this isn't the case with Mozilla.
Even though it's half the size of NS 4.72, it is orders of
magnitude slower... at least in 32MB it is.
> If you can live without js, (and I can) NS2.02 turns it OFF better than
> Arachne.
I believe 3.04 also added certain table functions (bgcolor?) among
other other things.
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