Wow & fonts question built-in

[Eric D.]

On my B&W G3/450 OmniWeb b2 (no slower than older versions) is pretty zippy
& does the _best_ job of rendering good looking pages compared to _any_
browser on _any_ OS! (for speed it's in league with Opera for YDL 2.1
(fastest I've seen yet on this machine; though Linux fonts suck & therefore
the pages don't always look that hot in Opera  :(... no such thing as a
vector based font, or different sized bitmaps (or am I missing something)).

on 17/4/02 10:27, Robert Silge at robert.silge@utsouthwestern.edu wrote:

> You really find OW to be fast? I love the appearance and features, but find
> it (beta 1 edition) to be by far the slowest at rendering pages. Browsers
> for OS X are the worst aspect of it right now for me, worse than the finder.
> Mozilla can be fast, IE is more likely to be able to display plugin info...
> none of them is close to perfect. Makes me wish I could run Konqueror under
> DarwinX or something.
> 
> 
>> OmniWeb flies and manages to do multiple-threads with ease. Why can't the
>> Finder do the same thing? (it's not like the Finder really _does_ much that
>> they couldn't spend the resources re-writing it (the one thing I will give
>> XP is that M$ opitimised the GUI for speed (though, damn, it's just as
>> unstable as Win 98 and equally prone (if not _more_ to corruption)... a
>> friend's had to do a full reinstall of Win XP Home Edition TWICE now (& they
>> don't do fancy stuff with their computer... they run the basics) (the
>> "revert" to a previous state feature is kind of cool though)))