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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: DOS and WIN/98
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:15:22 +0100
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Matthias wrote:
>FWIW, for sure Arachne is the mother, but the relation between
>DR-WebSpyder 2.x and Arachne 1.xx is more complex than just
>a question of customizing and "pretty-coating".

True. But calling it a cousin would IMHO suggest that they both derivate
from a common source (such as Mosaic). I do understand that they needed to
do quite a lot of work (making a front-end between Allegro and the Arachne
source for instance, and watt-32 wasn't out then AFAIK etc.)

>Ironically, 32-bit DPMI DR-WebSpyder 2.1 was not able to display 
>.HTML pages larger than ca. 250 Kb, while 16-bit Real-Mode
>Arachne took a long time to process, but after having a coffee, 
>it would display such pages more or less correctly... ;-) 

Which is why I think porting Arachne to 32-bit would make it better (than
Webspyder). I think WebSpyder was the reason Michael haven't done it yet.
Ah well, perhaps I'll get some time over and make the port sometime this
year and let Michael focus on SSL, CSS and JavaScript (he has promised beta
JS a long time now, atleast the version one I made over a weekend could
handle some basic pages - but it was a too static sollution unfortunatly).
//Bernie