From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 15:25:23 MDT
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>For example, I've noticed over the last several days that the
>Nature web site (http://www.nature.com) has very long page display
>times in the old browser that I am using (Netscape 4.79). But if its
>slow in the old browsers, its probably slow in the new browsers
>(from a comparitive standpoint). Slower is *bad* -- it retards
>the progress of scientific learning, interaction, resolution of
>different opinions, etc.
Netscape 4 is famous to be sloooooow at displaying pages with lots of
nested tables (a <table> inside a <table> inside a <table> inside...), and
nested tables are the main tool to get the page right - that is, if the
web designer is seeking a "cool", a.k.a. unnecessary complex, display.
Visiting www.nature.com with Opera the display is istantaneous, with
Mozilla (Netscape 6) very fast.
>It is very easy for me to judge this on windows. I simply have
>the "Windows Task Manager" running (but minimized) most of the
>time and watch the degree of CPU usage when I am doing something.
>When I open a Nature page in a browser the CPU pegs at 50%
Hmmmmm, shouldn't it be constantly at 100% running Folding@Home or
similar???? At least, that's how mine looks.
Ciao,
Alfio
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