OmniWeb 2 speed.

[Claus Priisholm]

William Shipley wrote:

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> On the other hand, please understand that in 2.0 we've taken what 
> was a C library and rewritten it from scratch using objects and
> foundation kit.
> While this actually gives some performance boosts (less copying of  
> buffers), on the whole it's a performance lose.
>
> At the same time, we've made our entire architecture extensible;
> you can add new tags to the HTML parser and also add entirely new 
> bundles of processors and preferences and addresses and
> authorization types.

And thats the way it should be! I rather have a stable,  
feature-full program, than one that does nothing interesting, but it  
does it fast... Or when comparing to Netscape: does things fairly  
fast, but then often end up locking everything (as seemingly is the  
case on my colleagues Windows 3.1 ridden PC - I know that's the way  
things are in Windows, but...)

Speed is a relative entity, thats not the case for features like  
tables and frames (and perhaps also Java - I mean some day someone  
will find something more interesting to do with Java than a Viper  
moving across the bottom of the screen while annoying my colleagues  
with its noise :-)

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OaO
 Claus
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