[geeks] Web Browsers that Don't Suck

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Apr 12 14:32:31 CDT 2002


On April 12, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> [4] Come -on-.  Other than JavaShit and plug-ins, how much compuration
>     does it require to open a telnet connection to port 80, issue a
>     handful of commands, parse the output, and draw the result in a
>     window?

  Mozilla is a perfect example of enormous code bloat resulting from
programmers trying to impress each other by being "cute" or "clever".
The major issue, I suspect, is lots of JavaScript.  Not Java, but
JavaScript.  There's TONS of interpreted JavaScript embedded in the
Mozilla binary.

  That said, Mozilla is still my default browser.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire              "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!"
St. Petersburg, FL                          - Mr. Bill



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