Re: lynx-dev Lynx is dying !?

[David Combs]

How do you know it was lynx taking time to
compute the html --> text?

At least here on netcom, the communications have
gotten so bad that it pauses all the time --
I know it is communications because the load-factor
on the sun I am attached to there is like .5 or so.

Seems to me that lynx is FAST at computing (parsing) the
html; VASTLY faster than netscape, anyway.

> From address@hidden Mon Jul 27 15:17:16 1998
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> >> I really like lynx and am using it everyday for browsing on the net. But 
> >> for
> >> browsing on the net you need incremental rendering, caching of the html 
> >> source,
> >> background downloading. As far as i understand, most of the lynx users 
> >> only use
> >
> >Strange.  I've used lynx literally for years, and have never seen a need for
> >incremental rendering (but then, I don't go in for long html file sites -
> >more text then I care to read in a 24x80 window).  Now, caching I might
> 
> Well, I do use Lynx in an 80 * 24 window (unfortunately I can't get more
> than 24 high on my GS), and I would benefit from the incremental rendering.
> 
> Just last night I was searching for a bunch of movies on the IMDB 
> (www.imdb.com)
> and for some reason it would spurt out a few thousand characters, then 
> pretty much hang.  After I realized what it was doing, I was hitting Z 
> after a while to stop it, and every time saw the data I was looking for
> (plot summaries).  Incremental rendering would've gotten me the same thing
> without having to manually stop it.
> 
> (Yes, I know I just need a new version with this compiled in.)
> 
>