Hello Steven - At 08:34 AM 11/15/02 +0000, you wrote:
Can't comment on the 'installs'. I am convinced I will enjoy Linux only if it is installed to it's own machine. Not a fan of mixed file formats here. >> I compiled links with svgalib on my main box, and was >> quite impressed. That might be something that can be >> added to BL. > >I tried it a few months ago and it ran terribly slow, >slower than Netscape. That was a surprise. I expected >a SVGAlib browser to run faster than an X browser. >Perhaps they have speeded it up since I last tried it. >Did it seem slow to you? I have been disappointed/annoyed by the slow GUI browsers put out by so-called professional programmers. I use Opera v3.62 and W31 most of the time. After Arachne, I find it to be the 2nd fastest browser available. Unfortunately javascripting continues to bloat into an absurdity and webpage designers continue to chase after each new version of javascript and/or any other method to flood the bandwidth with more graphics. :-\ I have the DOS MAWK (AWK language interpreter) here at 55K that seems flexible enough to do anything javascripting can do yet Netscape v4.08 seems to need several megabytes of additional modules loaded each time it encounters ANY js on a webpage? AWK _should_ have been used in place of PERL (yuk) and could have been used rather than js as client-side or server-side CGI. I moan in agony each time I hear another 'new' language has been foisted onto the Internet. A _real_ programmer would be embarassed to admit that he/she had accepted payment to develop these monstrosities that slow Internet access to a crawl (or dead stop). Akamai.net having oversold their bandwidth (greed?) is another story but I'd guess we've all sat and stared at that name when our browswers seem to have rolled over and died? Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
