IE6 sucks grabbing webcontent before loading on my USR 56K here even at 52.0K connect.. Mozilla can grab and display faster (by how much faster, dunno, but I use a 8192 mem-cache) way before IE6 can display on many pages.. that is on P3-733, 512Meg Ram.
-IE is not faster on every system. JTK wrote: > Subject: > > Re: Mozilla 1.0: JTK/Hixie performance criteria suggestions? > From: > > JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > > Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:33:04 -0600 > > Newsgroups: > > netscape.public.mozilla.general > > > Gervase Markham wrote: > > [snip] > > >>>> > The goals of our performance criteria are for a user who switches from >>>> > the at-that-point current version of IE to the Mozilla 1.0 build to >>>> > not experience a regression in performance that is greater than a >>>> > factor of two. (Ideally, of course, there would be no regression at >>>> > all. This is simply a goal for a 1.0 release.) >>> >>> >>> Because we have decided to have a stable branch in Q1 next year, and >>> call it Mozilla 1.0, things have become unavoidably more date-driven >>> than they used to be (that's not to say we won't slip if we're not >>> happy.) The Performance team, and anyone who wants to help them, will be >>> fixing dependencies of the performance tracking 1.0 metabug as fast as >>> they can up to the wire. That's all we can ask. >>> >> > > In other words, performance of half-as-good as min(IE,NS4.x) is not > achievable, and will not be part of the release criteria for Mozilla > 1.0. All that matters is a circled box on a calendar... strangely > similar to the Fiascape 6.0 release criteria, no? > > My, you could knock me over with a feather. > > Guys, just do me one favor: don't be surprised in the least when Mozilla > 1.0 is released and it's ignored as much as Netscape 6.0 was reviled. > IE is getting so hella-fast I can't hardly believe it. Have any of you > tried IE6 on XP? Honestly, it screams through a lousy 56K *modem* - I'm > afraid to find out what it will do through a DSL or cable setup! > > BTW: What in God's name is with all the fricken spam in this newsgroup > (which oddly enough still has that "netscape." on it even though we were > told there were plans in place to change that months ago)? Sheesh, I > leave for a few days and the whole place goes to hell. > > -- Gary "JTK" Van Sickle (Yep, I'm still standin' ;-)) >
