>*cough* Don't hold your breath... ;-) I'm already beyond impressed over the last three days.
> >I've found that OpenDoc/Cybie leaks memory like crazy. But then >again, I was often using it for web, ftp, telnet, and email all at >the same time. I had two crashes in three days. Two! Netscape has like two crashes every half hour. And not just dainty little force quite crashes, but total computer freeze up crashes requiring a restart. > >I used it virtually exclusively for telnet and email while in college >- that was on OS 9.1 and 8.6 on a Wallstreet and a Beige G3. It >works fine if you install OpenDoc, but OpenDoc was deprecated after >OS 8. (Parts of it still rear their ugly head in SOMobjects - It's >too bad that Apple and IBM dropped it - it would have knocked the >teeth out the back of MicroSoft's OLE's head!) > >Anyway, I strongly disagree that Cyberdog is even a decent web >browser. Again lets keep persepective that this is system 7 we're talking about. >The interface is clunky at best, True, although I might call it "uncluttered". >and the feature set of the >browser portion is dismal - it renders tables (TABLES! Even NN 2 got >tables more or less right!) poorly, Not so bad as to make information unreadable. iCab does some (actually a lot of) things pretty crappy too but I would use iCab over netscape 2 for gods sake. > doesn't like frames, hates >javascript I was playing Javanoid in Cyberdog just fine yesterday. That's good enough for me. Also played embedded quicktime, which is good. >and virtually every new HTML-related technology since >1996. Nestcape Navigator 2 would be a better choice, in my book. Except for the constant crashing, and worse, trillians of java and other error messages, which in some cases cause the crashes. I'd rather not have any error messages. I'm sure there are lots of things Cyberdog doesn't understand. Thank god it doesn't tell me. Those error messages on every single friggin page really ticked me off in netscape and I still couldn't figure out how to turn them off. And even if I did, well there are still constant crashes. > >For email, though, it's pretty awesome - it's certainly one of the >best _free_ solutions out there. Eudora (if you can deal with the >stupid ads) is better (but then there's the ads). If you want to >pay, PowerMail is far and away the BEST email client I've ever used! >And I've used lots of email clients from Tin and Pine to OS X's Mail. In the scope of system 7 browsers I'm still drawing the conclusion that I like Cyberdog the best. It displays pages well enough for information to be read. That's all thats really important to me on my 3400c. If I need hardcore web browsing I have my G3. For a while I was using Wannabe (text only) but I really do need to see images at least, and have some kind of formatting. So now its Cyberdog for me (with iCab as backup). -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
