On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:17:28 -0600, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. The screenshots are zipped PNGs (kinda redundant, but...). The > screenshots were taken in Arachne 1.70r3 & show two color rendering problems > (CNN & mozilla screenshots), weird XMS numbers & strange characters all over > a page: > http://phish.marko.net/arachne/ Hello David; I'm guessing you are a Mac or Linux user originally ? As unlikely as it might be for a lowly DOS user for 20+ years to have a useful suggestion for a Linux user, (Mac's another story) may I suggest you use sensible 8.3 filenames for things you zip. There was one there I couldn't even ERASE !!. Luckily I have an unzipper that allows me to produce an output file of any name. Since there are only two users of this unzipper on the planet, you may get some unkind comments from those not so lucky. ;-) Second point, yes zipped .pngs are redundant. I meant zipped BITMAPS which would then reproduce EXACTLY and not dependant on any png2bmp. If I may make another suggestion, smaller screens make smaller files. Enough bitching.<g> I have seen all your screenshots and I understand your complaint about weird colors, but those weird colors are partly your own choice. They are also partly due to the stupidity of the person(s) that generated the page. See, they probably assumed you would be viewing them with IE or NS and that you wouldn't have been smart enough to change the default text or background colors cuz they certainly weren't smart enuff. The default colors for those in Arachne may be quite different depending on which color format you selected and/or what changes you made. Also, there is this thing called CSS (Crappy Style Shit) that makes CSS links a truly shitty color usually, unless you turn it off and make your own link color choice override. Regardless, you will always have a problem someplace. Set your links to blue and you will find a site that imposes a blue backgrond on you. The weird text. Ah yess. Partly due to some European character support built into the font set I believe. We might be stuck with it. The fantastic quantities of XMS. This is an indication that something on one of the sites you visited made Arachne crash softly. Just a bump. Usually the problem is too many objects. Really, just stupid page design again. But still, Arachne should not do what it does. She may have run out of XMS memory and then switched xSwap to HD and started counting funny. The bad part here is she probably will not switch back unless you run setup again and re-select XMS. She will be very slow with xSwap on HD. > "I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely > what is and what is not possible." > -- Henry Ford Hank, it is definitely possible that you are dead. - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
