On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:10:42PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > I've also heard that the SpiderMonkey - the new mozilla has marked > improvements in the area. But slow rendering was only one of the > issues. I have switched to a keyboard-only text-mode 'desktop' - > interface, I should say and I am a much happier man.
Nice. I don't think I could get by with text-only in my main browser.... FYI, I think there's a Firefox extension that is aimed at keyboard-only use. Never used it, though. > Drop the mouse man..! Charles Darwin is categorical.. You'll never grow > a third arm in your lifetime. Oh it's no problem, I use my tail to control the mouse! :) > Oh.. and as to developers being 'whimsical' relative to enhancements, I > think not.. That's exactly why I barged into your thread.. The list is > really the place where you can voice an opinion.. and since this caching > behavior was something that struck me as being fundamentally different > from the other browser.. Not sure it's a bad thing, though.. I briefly > mentioned it but Miciah has a good point.. when the server is > unresponsive it's OK I guess if you explicitly ask for a reload.. Maybe > less so when the reload is done on a transparent basis every time you > hit the back button (eg.). I guess "whims" was a bad word to use. I just wanted to explain that I understand it's open source and that the developers can do what they like. Sure, having a discussion on this list is one way to convince them that your way is the right way! (So here goes:) As for the cache issue, I think the current method is not good from a usability standpoint. It sounds like he and I use ELinks in different ways so he doesn't run into this problem often, plus he places a lot of value on speed. I think if Mozilla or Firefox worked the same way, the majority of users would be up in arms! So if I was in charge of ELinks development, I'd make the Mozilla "compare automatically" (or whatever it is) be the default but put in Mozilla's other settings as options. Then everyone could be happy. reid _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
