Hi folks,
I'm a little bit upset about the talking about Arachnes death. Yes,
there are several bugs. Yes, there are several bells and whistles
Arachne is not able to handle. Yes, there are several websites Arachne
can't handle properly due to bad html code or whatever.
But comparing A. with Lynx is not fair at all. Lynx is a text browser and Arachne is a
graphical
one. For extracting text from html code You don't need a browser. Get the page with
wget
and read it with Your favorite text editor. If You need graphical
information, like maps,satellite photos, images of Arachne users :-), a
graphical browser is needed. And AFAIK there is no graphical browser for
DOS which is as stable as Arachne, even A.1.70rev.3 is more stable and
more useful than any other thing I tested, including Skipper which comes
with Geos/ Newdeal. I'm using A. since version 1.60b1 for my daily
internet stuff (reading mail, looking at some story pages, reading some
news at web.de) and it _WORKS_.
Speaking about scrolling, remember that when You hit page up or page
down, with a resolution of 1024x786 HiColor about 1.6 MB are to be moved
via Your bus system. Compare this with the speed of Your ISA bus and
You'll know what You can expect. With the exeption of dozeware, there is
no slow software.
Regards Joerg, looking forward for next version of Arachne.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 05:15:33 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
<snipped Howard's quote>
> Was Arachne ever really going strong? Is its death stroll anything new? But
> now, RAM is so cheap, there is no sense buying a new computer with less than
> 256 MB, computer users move on to bigger things. Why put up with Arachne's
> clumsy scrolling and other comical flaws?
> Lynx has the advantage of being open-source, ported to many Unixes and some
> non-Unixes too. Newer versions show all images, including inline, as links,
> downloadable or viewable on separate screen. How many people are working on
> Arachne? Lynx is useful on those super-image-laden Web sites that are just too
> slow in a graphic browser.
> Didn't we hear some time last year that Arachne was going to be developed for
> portable, handheld devices like palmtops and cell phones?
-- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
