Re: tlug: It works!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <- 3Web <jq@example.com>> writes:
> >
> >    Jonathan> The Japanized version of Netscape is really quite nice,
> >    Jonathan> and makes inquiring minds wonder why Netscape couldn't
> >    Jonathan> just do this themselves and ship it that way :-)
> >
> >Probably has something to do with the number of licenses they could
> >sell, and the amount of competition they faced.  Until two three years 
> >ago, my Institute would buy _one_ copy of software, then put the
> 
> Your institute and just about every other entity in Japan :-)
> 
> But Netscape had been free for personal use for a long time, so it's
> hard to imagine licensing being the problem (or competition, until IE
> 3.0 came out, and moreso after IE 4.0), and it has always had Japanese
> input support on other platforms.  That's the center of my beef with
> Netscape on this: the Linux version of Netscape lacks features that are
> available on other platforms, including basic stuff like the invaluable
> File Bookmark function (is this in 4.05 for Linux?  I'm still on 4.04).
> And it's not very nice, either.  When it's loading a page, it
> essentially freezes the whole system until it's done; even the mouse
> will move only sporadically.  I've never seen it do that on any
> platform; this is one "feature" I could do without very nicely :-)

This is a 'feature' that I've been doing without for as long as I can
remember - page loading doesn't cause the slowdown on my (k6-200, 64mb
ram) machine... nor on any of my lesser machines... is this the Fujitsu
again?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
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