Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] >> ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I >> assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and >> are much, much slower. > [snip] > > Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost anything). Why, oh > WHY, would we subject ourselves to Web-based message boards and > Webmail services? When using a proper e-mail client, your bandwidth > usage consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail > service, your bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, > PLUS the entire user interface.
Not necessary when using (i)frames + cache > Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML > renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-code user interface with > only the e-mail message itself passed through the renderer. Nowadays, more then futile. > I mean, the way > Webmail works, you're at the message list and click on a message to > view. This causes a whole new page, user-interface and all, to be > loaded. In comparison, that's like shutting down and re-opening your > e-mail program for every single message you want to view! This can be designed much better by using iframes, maybe even Ajax. > Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing hypertext > pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every application > imaginable? Because it works? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list