rob wrote: > > Hey, > > I do a large amount of local development work with Mozilla and Netscape > 6.x ... running off a locally installed web server such as IIS or Apache. > > Here's the deal: > > Basically, on pages with lots of table structures and many sliced > graphics (we're talking pages with total sizes upwards of 50k) the pages > almost never finish loading and the graphics frequently fail to load, > leaving the page incomplete. Externally loading files, other than the > core html, seem to fail frequently, even reloading. Images, CSS files, > and JS files frequently do not load. The page comes up all distorted > (because empty alt tags are being inserted where spacers where, etc.) > and frequently unreadable. > > I'm a big fan and advocate of Mozilla, but this can be a real problem > for a local developer. I've checked and the problem is happening on my > home machine, my work machine, and two other machines at work running > IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Professional. As you may or may not know, IIS > on Win2k Professional is limited to 10 simulatneous connections, because > Micro$oft wants you to use Server. > > I checked some HTML/PHP sites on Apache and although I can't use it for > the project I'm on right now (much of what we do is ASP stuff, sorry!) > and guess what? Lets hear it for open source, huh? It works fine on > Apache. Particularly the static ones are telling. Only thing I can > think of is, no connection limits. > > Almost like Mozilla times out connection limits too soon, or something. > > That's the only thing I can think of as being the culprit, but I know > very little about the HTTP connections and how Mozilla reads 'em. > > I was wondering if anyone else, maybe someone involved in Necko or what > have you could look into this, check the connections, etc. etc. etc. > > I'd appreciate it. It is a bit of a problem, because Mozilla is the > only browser that displays this problem, and so all those great > Microsoft Developers which are developing ASP apps locally which we want > to convert to Mozilla "true believers" will automatically open up > Mozilla and be like, "what is this crap??". > > Thanks. > :rob I see the same thing. But I'm getting to the point where I think M$ does this crap on puropse somehow. I'm just an "above average" user by most standards... I can build a wicked computer and tweak Windoze to almost emulate an OS, but I don't write program code or "crack". After years of "forced" upgrades and "improvements" to M$ products, I've finally had enough. I don't go for the "Gotta have Windows XP" sort of fever that so many others do... I'm on 98.6... meaning I'm on 98 and 60% complete in my quest to totally convert to Linux! I have noticed the pattern emerging where for every ONE thing M$ "fixes" they break three others...
