monsieurjohn said:
i'm sure it loads pages faster - it
only loads half of them from the looks of it
my question wasn't why run amiga over xp, it was why run
amiga at all when you could just run xp? you're just that
big of an amiga fan? if so that's cool, i'm just curious
Yes, AWeb's a bit different from other web browsers.
At first, I thought so as well, "it loads only half of
the pages", but in fact, despite not all rendering stuff
might be supported, you can surf almost all web sites
with it, including online forums, Amazon, Google and stuff.
It runs JavaScript as well, and plays animated GIFs
more precisely than other browers (respects GIF timing
info better). So it works better than Mozilla!
I haven't yet played with AWeb's configuration options,
perhaps I can make it show background images, it doesn't
always seem to display those. No idea why, tho.
However, it's permitted by the HTML or CSS standards,
not to show rendering options, so it's a perfectly valid
approach. It doesn't bother me at all.
I've been using XP, 2000, Windows 98 and 95 in the past
years at home, but I'm getting tired of Windows, and
I discovered just a few days ago that there's a new
version of AmigaForever (6.0), and I purchased it!
Because I always wanted to see what AmigaOS 3.9 looks
like!
I used to be one of the biggest Amiga fans in the world!
That was 10 years ago, and at some point I had to buy a PC
to train myself for work (I'm a programmer).
I wish I could work as an Amiga programmer, but the jobs
are scarce, just like in the rest of the industry.
I will definitely get myself an AmigaONE with AmigaOS 4
when it's finally released for end users, and then I can
write programs that are impossible to write on Windows.
AmigaOS has a much higher and more reliable multitasking
thruput and that's important when you want to write
time-critical applications, or just applications that
run smoothly all the time.
I'm so fed up with Windows sometimes, and I wish I could
return to Amiga programming, at least in my spare time.
