On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [Netscape] is a piece of > > shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession.
You have misquoted me, sir. I _never_ referred globally to Netscape as "... a piece of shoddy and amateurish programming". That is emphatically not true and I will not have you put those words in my mouth. On the contrary, Netscape is a highly useful application with many admirable features. It has been my exclusive Web browser over the past five years and I have personally found it immensely useful. I have the greatest respect for its programmers who, I am certain, are professionals of great skill and experience. _My_ reference was to one loop inside Netscape which hogs system resources and can crash a system when it is unable to continue communication with a remote host. Below is _precisely_ what _I_ said: "Netscape goes into a tight, infinite and load crushing loop when it is trying to access data from a remote Web site and the data it is expecting does not come back for one reason or another. It may be because your ppp connection died or for some reason the remote site is not sending the data. A Netscape in this loop will not allow you to communicate with it by clicking on its 'Stop' button or any other control. Such a process must usually be dealt with using 'kill -s 9 PID' or it will eventually hog all your system resources and force you to reboot. Sometimes you can get it to stop and take an exception exit by killing your pppd. "... An infinite loop like this can easily be given a timeout and allow the 'Stop' event and other navigation events to take place. It is a piece of shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession." Netscape for Linux has many problems, but we must be ever thankful to the programmers who, working as volunteers and without pay, produced a free Netscape for Linux from a time several years before Netscape open-sourced its code and embraced the Free Software movement. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]