On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:40:10 -0900 (PDT), Howard Schwartz wrote:


> Do others have the feeling that arachne is starting its death stroll
> these days, because of the frustration of one or 2 authors trying to
> keep up with all the rapidly increasing amount of nutty web page
> designs, languages, tools, and big-company specific do-dads?


Does anybody *know* what's happening with Michael? He did announce
that Javascript support was "expected in the next release", but 
that was around six months ago. Nothing since then. Is he concentrating
on his other ventures? 

> Strangely, the old Unix standby lynx still seems to be able to give
> a decent rendering to most of the crazy new types of pages. Perhaps
> this is because there are a lot more people maintaining lynx, it
> is such a traditional part of all types of Unix, etc.


It's much easier to ignore than to render. And there are lots of people
involved in ongoing Lynx development.






Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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