and another one ...

[Harris Boldt Edelman]

Michael Branton <mgb at thoth.stetson.edu> writes:

>Pick any sound icon off the  NCSA mosaic demo document. Instant crash.

Five'll get ya ten, you're double-clicking the sound icons.  Double-
clicking effectively must be triggering a concurrent second fetch of
the sound, which in turn must be inducing OmniWeb to crash.  "Just a
guess.."  I did verify that single-clicking sound icons works fine,
after being bitten a few times by double-click-and-crash.

It's an inconsistency, to be sure, that one double-clicks on a textual
anchor, but single-clicks a sound icon.  Its irksomeness derives from
one's being impelled to realize a certain kinship with the likes of
trained seals, Pavlov's dogs, et al.  I'm content, for now, to swear
naively at the Mosaic-chauvinist crowd for the UI gaffe; so much else
that's "broken" seems to be "their fault" (and there does appear to
be lots of broken hypertext out there on the Web, something to bear
in mind whenever things go screwy).


>version 0.5 is looking better all the time... :-)  (I'm using .61 right now.)

Aw, spend a little more time with 0.6.1.

For one thing, after my early spasms over the new Root Page mechanism,
I've come to find I prefer having added bookmarks kept in a file of
their own, as opposed to their simply being appended to my regular
starting page.

0.6.1 now cleans up after itself, removing (upon a normal exit) all
the files it writes under /tmp; 0.6 wasn't removing these.

Sensitive maps now seem to work.

The flexibility of having a resizeable split view is worthwhile.  I'd
still prefer the browsers to be detachable, though, so that the display
window could be sized to full screen height without entirely forsaking
the browsers.

The "Transferred x bytes of y" that now displays in those cases where
y is known to the WWW client is a very welcome improvement over simply
"Transferred x bytes".  The 10pt. type is, I guess, the price to pay
for the split view.


-Harris.  <hbe at red-eft.la.ca.us>


P.S. It'd be highly disingenuous of me to say how much I like hrule.tiff.