Tibor Moscar wrote:
>>Hmm... my modesty tells me I should tell you that it was a known problem.
>
>I wonder how many of such "known problems" are there!
Hehe, there aren't that many. And this is addressed now (or actually a week
ago).
>There is an
>incompatibility issue with 4DOS, almost every time I use Arachne (with
>or without 4DOS, with or without UKA_PPP) it crashes or freezes, hangs
>up the system.
Hmm.... UKA_PPP should work should it not?
4DOS is another thing altogether - and I would advice you to use Arachne
without it.
>I also get the lost clusters and alike. Maybe, I'm just
>not smart enough to configure my system/Arachne properly.
I don't think so, or atleast I don't hope so. ;)
>On the other
>hand, I have such problems with Arachne only. Every other month there is
>a new beta or alpha or beta 2 or final beta without thorough fixing a
>previous problem but introducing a new one. Should I mention which
>company it remembers me?
That's not fare actually. For starters the file isn't over 20 MB (now not
even over 1). More over many bugs have been fixed (any mail download
problems now (except aborted transfers)? None has atleast been reported for
quite some time). Keep in mind that Michael is rather alone with fixing
these. Ok, I (and Eko) and some friends to him down in .cz help out as much
as we can with code (and users by reporting problems, even if we already
knew about them).
Are there so many problems? I don't think so, and the ones we know about
are beeing fixed one by one. Of course there's a risk new will be
introduced - but since this program is said to be Alpha/Beta that you are
free to use it is very diffrent from the latest beta fix to Win 1.0 (namely
Win 98 + whatever additional fixes you might need).
Known bugs now (or atleast the ones I can think about right now):
* 4dos support - no idea why it isn't working is available at this point
* Utilities crashes/hangs when many files are trying to be shown (or
something simular) - fixes beeing under way (partly fixed in wwwman for
1.50B3 already)
* *Complete* GIF support (2 known bugs) - Michael's department so I don't
know how it's going
* APM.EXE doesn't work - fixed (http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/apm/apm.zip
read the instructions!)
* Table layout bugs - Once again Michaels
* When at max/min resolution the screen is still changed if yoiu try and
reduce/increase it - Once again Michaels, should however not take very long
to fix
* "To little space left" message bug - No good way to solve it IMHO
* Not all icons are "serious" when you switch to that option - Probably
rather easy to fix for Michael
* Back doesn't always take you where you want to go on the page in question
- unknown reason to me
* Stopping downloading Framed sites might freeze the computer/Arachne -
reported by user recently sofar noone else have reported the same thing
* Frames always have the up/down sidebar - No fix in the near future (but
it could just as well be regarded as a feature IMO)
* The wizard doesn't find all modems - was (partly) fixed but Arachnes
Table rendering changed so I wouldn't suggest you download it
(http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/ somewhere)
Hmm... I checked with bugs.txt and Michael only have 3 there - not this
much, probably why not everyone knows of them. And some of these doesn't
affect how Arachne operates except in certain situations.
And there are of course the hardware/setup problems - but that is (often)
the computer/users/ISP/unknowns fault.
Things that are lacking/beeing worked on are:
Embeded audio (video might take some time <G>)
JavaScript
SSL
News
IRC
ICQ - Michael has all the code he needs to comunicate with the server(s)
Editor is somewhat limited - Michael has code but hasn't implemented it yet
Other features
All these shouldn't be that hard to incorporate in Arachne, but Michael
needs time and I think it's better that you get a version that has a few
changes then not getting any at all. But it would be good if the latest
changes.txt file could be viewable on the Net so you would know if you
actually need the new version.
Ex. Animated GIFs first appeared in 1.49 12 March it still isn't working as
expected (but improving with every release). In time the others will be
there, first probably only working at times but will become better in time.
And of course:
Java, ShockWave, etc. are rather unlikely in the near future (this milenia) ;)
//Bernie
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