On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 04:25:51 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Even on a relatively simple but long page like
> http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ky/climate.html
> vertical scrolling with Arachne is slow and clumsy. Or substitute your state
> (2 letter abbreviation) for ky; this is for the USA, and other people who want
> US weather reports.
Yes Thomas, Arachne does not handle that page well, but it's not the
scrolling that's the problem. Maybe the HTML is marginal. I tried it
earlier with NS2.02 and the page worked fine and scrolled fast.
Just now with A1.62 the page loaded fast and page up/down and home/end
worked but nowhere as neatly as Netscape, and the background sky image
just flashed through the slots in Arachne's venetian blind effect.
What can I say. The video drivers are crap and nothing will ever be done
about them because some people believe that "C" is a useful programming
language for such things.
The reason I say the HTML may be marginal is because I also tried the
page with A1.66 and it was incapable of rendering the tables correctly
at all. I didn't bother with A1.70 because I feel it is too slow to be
useful.
Maybe some negativity will generate some activity ??
> DOS users are not left out!
> Try http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/
- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
