[thelist] Why is NS6 DHTML so SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW?!

[Andrew Forsberg]

>>It does support a new version of javascript, however, doesn't it?
>
>A new DOM. As to the JavaScript version numbers, personally I don't 
>believe they're important.
>
>For an overview of new stuff in Netscape 6, see 
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html?version5.html

Now that page *is* interesting. Thank you.

I don't know about how the rest of the list feel about extensively 
using the various implementations of the DOM (or lack of 
implementation), but personally I've nearly given up, and use server 
side programming wherever possible to provide services.

Javascript on its own, on the other hand, seems fairly safe -- has 
anyone found anything particularly useful or interesting in v 1.3?

>>Netscape 6 won't die, it'll just morph into a whole raft of other
>>browsers via Mozilla. At least, that's my gut feeling given the open
>>source nature of mozilla.
>
>Yes, that could happen (and I hope it does). But I agree Netscape 6 
>is not very good at the moment.
>
>ppk

It really does suck that a good, fast rendering engine (gecko) is 
lumped inside a bloated, sluggish browser. But this is old territory 
and I don't think anyone really wants to revisit that, so I'll 
<duck/> and plead mercy.


-- 
Andrew Forsberg
http://www.thepander.co.nz/