Misc. questions

[Holger Hoffstaette]

Hi -

I have some questions about OmniWeb. I'm on Mach 4.2/x86.

The first is related to the really annoying 'gray screen of death'.
I've observed that it happens more often when I rapidly open/close
document windows, and it seems to be related to some release/autorelease
race condition. I've read somewhere that OS4.2 and Rhapsody differ in
some subtle aspects like freeing sub- and superviews; this might be
the reason that the bug doesn't seem to happen on Rhapsody
Is there any chance that the next version of OmniWeb will take care
of this? I realize that patching around OS4.2 misbehaviour is
not a really good way to spend one's time these days, but the sad
reality is that this bug alone makes OmniWeb a whole lot less
useful. I regularly use several documents at the same time for
'real work' and constantly shutting down/restarting OW is very
counterproductive. Not to mention the memory leaks..

Another thing is more of an HTML question: if you visit
http://www.objectshare.com/vwnc/ you'll see an empty white
page. A <style> tag is followed by an unclosed HTML comment,
effectively rendering the end of the style tag useless; this results
in quite a lack of style. I have all Netscape comaptibility options
checked, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
Should I bug their webmaster about broken HTML?

Finally, my last question is about how Omni sees the future of OW
in immediate and short term. It's the best thing we have until OSX
hits the street, but it's getting harder every day to use it
productively, simply because of apparent incompatibilities, slow
performance (which is really DPS'/AppKit fault), lack of Java
(which is not OW's fault either), etc. I've thought about using
Netscape on Linux via Cub'X, but don't really like this idea - if only
for the lack of working cut & paste.

Regards,
Holger