Hey Charles!

Oct 06 14:45 03, Charles Angelich wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 CA> With the WWW top-heavy with graphics 'smaller and faster' is
 CA> good. 

It can be.  Certainly items worthy of consideration when assessing browsers.

 CA> I'm not seeing what you are seeing but I run in 32 bit True
 CA> Color here. 

Depends but in the case of X it is set to 24-bit graphics which I believe
is True Colour.  I am under the impression that 32-bit is classed as
Infinite Colours.  I could be wrong.  Framebuffers on the console default
to 16-bit but with the Matrox card I can change resolutions and bits on the
fly.  Truly awesome.  It dazzles the locals everytime they see it.  They
find it unbelievable what their eyes are seeing and say so after their
initial shock wears off.  I like it too.

 CA> The quality seems the same (to me) so I opt for speed. :-) 

If you check out tables sometimes Opera shows gaps where other browsers
don't.  At least this is true for the Linux version.  I have no idea about
the Windows version.  However if I lived on a GUI I might consider this a
minor inconvenience and also opt for speed.  Luckily that isn't an issue
here.

 CA> Are you aware of LINKS(2) that can do either graphical or
 CA> text-only browsing? 

Yep.  The framebuffer graphics are nice but still need work.  I still
mostly use text mode and am happy to say it is an option.  About 99.9% of
the browsing I do is in text mode so it works out for me.  Tables and
frames work well in text mode, better then graphical mode in my humble
opinion.  If I need graphics it is nice that they're there.  Not a really
big issue though but fun to play with every once and awhile.

Life is good,
Maurice

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