The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Packer) writes: > As a big Firefox fan (writing extensions and living on the BLEEDING edge > by running Nightlies) I wonder if IE even HAS a way to be selective about > it. Someone who's an IE fan can perhaps enlighten us. one of the things i've done is using wget to fetch a list of (news, article oriented) websites, figure out the difference (since last seen) ... select the individual article URLs that are new/different ... then check the firefox sqlite history repository ... and get firefox to fetch the new/unseen URls in different tabs. A days worth might be 300-600 tabs. the objective is that it eliminates the latency associated with the traditional point&click on the web. once the URls are fetched ... it is purely local response ... and in the past year or so, firefox overhead has gotten significantly better handling hundreds of open tabs. recent posts mentioning some of the glue for doing this http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#32 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#35 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers there is a little heuristic ... some news/article oriented sites have countermeasures for multiple hits from the same client address in short period of time ... i.e. the tab fetches have to be spaced out over time. once the fetches start ... it is possible to be reading the tabs that are already local ... while remaining tabs are being fetched in the background. for some mainframe related ... old post discussing application programming of emulated 3270 interface http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35 Newbie TOPS-10 7.03 question on the internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet circa 1981 (pre-PC, pre pc3270 terminal emulation, pre hllapi, etc). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
