Things are changing rather quickly these days, Glenn .. On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:37:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:29:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > All of what you've just mentioned *can* be done with Arachne. > I know because I do it all the time. > I have made several purchases in the last couple of months on Amazon.com > Also on eBay. (currently high bidder on item 1529550198)<g> > (have not as yet sold anything on eBay but I see no reason why Arachne > would not work just as well for selling as it does for buying) <g> > For maps I use http://www.mapquest.com/ > Phone #s http://www.whowhere.com/ > So, my question is: > Exactly what is it that you can't do with Arachne? > Whatever those items might be. > I'll bet you dollars to donuts that we can figure-out > a way of doing them in Arachne. :)) I can't use PayPal with Arachne; I can't have an account -- money type -- ith eBay using Arachne; I can't even sign into my account on Yahoo, or Yahoo Groups, using Arachne. They all require httpS and Arachne doesn't have that. ^ You can't sell on eBay without an eBay money account, btw. You may know what Sword of Shanarra is worth on the market, or to you. But when I'm bidding on things like scanners & digital cameras, I want the full info from the manufacturer -- and I can't get it using Arachne because of javascript. I also want to know what the street and web prices are for the items I bid, if I'm unfamiliair with them -- again javascript is necessary for many of the sites. To read the product info and search for the correct match on a new UPS at TrippLite, I need javascript. I have bought on Amazon.com a couple of times, and I think I used Arachne. However, I cannot access Science Fiction Book Club on line or Barnes & Noble to order anything without [you guessed it] https. Yes, some day Arachne may be able to handle Javascript and Flash5 and secure socket transactions ... but I highly doubt it will be on the DOS platform. And as for newsgroups ... Arachne doesn't do them, Dejaview doesn't work too well and may not work much longer with Arachne, and NetTamer will never be set up to work as other than a dial-in program. I'm a broad, but not a dumb broad. For me to shop & buy a new system based upon dozerware is a MAJOR financial decision for me ... so for me to do so implies there were/are some darn good reasons. Funny thing... give everyone a grin maybe: There are things that Arachne can do which NS4.6 on Win3.1 cannot do. Arachne can handle properly designed <noscript> page options where NetScrape simply hangs trying to handle javascript that is beyond its capacities. But on the other hand I can't play PCH lotto, or sign up for the $10,000,000 using Arachne. I use whatever works right now, often mailing pages to myself to be opened in whichever browser can handle them. I'd like to be able to just have one browser that *works* for the entire web ... thus the new system and the dozerware. Give me credit for one thing at least, even when my sanity is in doubt: I continue to use a computer and software, rather than letting the software and computer use/abuse me. <G> l.d. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
