TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-10-30 16:46:10
subject: Re: IE7 backing off

From: "John Beamish" 

Well of course Opera looks like a slug - it implements the rendering
standards correctly (including the Acid2 test).  Any browser can show
blazing speed if it selectively implements rendering stndards.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:57:06 -0500, Frank Haber  wrote:

>> IE7 would hang whenever AT&T Yahoo requested a login
>
> That one hasn't bit me yet, but be warned -- If your DNS servers are
> down, you'll get Google|[other default searches] which fail.  The fail
> window no longer says "404," but rather something namby-pamby and
> uninformative.  And I swear it sometimes just fails before it even tries
> the last (off-ISP, emergency) DNS entry in my router's list.
>
> And all this happens really FAST. Don't blink.
>
>  My current thought-you should try IE7 on one machine.  Enable the
> 16-bangs-per-server registry patch found on the blogs.  It makes even
> Opera look like a slug.  I want to, but I can't hate IE7.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786
@PATH: 379/45 1 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.