Re: comments on pgnus-v0.80

["Rupa Schomaker (list)" <rupa-list@rupa.com>]

SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes in ding@gnus.org:
> 
> > SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> >> * Notwithstanding the previous item and the coolness of Lars'
> >> presentation, I'm not sure I like handing html parts to W3 as a
> >> default.  It was pretty cool that tm blanked it out -- html
> >> doesn't belong in either mail or news.  How fast does this all
> >> work on slow(er) machines?  W3 flies on Demeter, but that's not
> >> exactly a fair test yet.
> 
> > I don't even notice that some articles are in HTML rather than plain
> > text.  This is on a 166 Mhz UltraSPARC.  I don't think you can buy
> > PC's slower than that today.
> 
> O.K.  Fair enough.  Objection dropped.


Where W3 really breaks on my machine is on the only piece of HTML
email that I actually read.  It is about 60K and is a multi-level
table.  Rendering it takes about 30s - 1min on my PPro 200.  Very
slow.  Regular "HTML Email" that most people generate renders
immediately.  I think that tables just take forever to render...


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