xeron wrote:
I'm not saying its as good as it is on the PC, but to say its totally useless, or torture, isn't necessarily true.
BTW, what system were you trying to browse the web on? 020/AGA?
I have an A1200 with Blizzard 1260, 64 MB fastram and an 18 GB SCSI harddrive, an A2000 with a Blizzard 2040/40, 64 MB fastram, 9 GB SCSI harddrive and a Cybervision 64/3D, and finally an A3000 with A3640/33, 16 MB fastram, 18 GB SCSI harddrive and a Cybervision 64. All of them have a range of extra (but in this case not relevant) hardware. The big boxes use a XSurf card, the A1200 uses a 3Com PCMCIA-card.
Not entirely the fastest Amigas you can find, but no slouches either and most likely better equiped than the average classic Amiga here on Amiga.org...
If I compare one of my (much beloved) Miggies to even a very old pc (the P133 I mentioned, is still in use every now and then) running something ancient like Win 95 or NT4, I hate to admit the pc gives a far better webbrowsing experience.
As my A1200, 2000 and 3000 in their current configuration are at least comparable to something like a late 486 or an early (<100 MHz) Pentium preformancewise, with a much lighter OS requiring less resources, I would expect nothing less than being able to surf the web in a way more or less comparable to an old pc running an old Windows version. And that's not possible. Not even close. Both IBrowse and Aweb are absolutely nót on par with even an old and not to great browser like, say, IE 5, 5.5 or 6.
Pages load extremely slow and very often do not display anywhere near correctly. I don't expect any of my (classic!) Amigas to be able to display Youtube-movies or any of that stuff, I just want them to be able to display ordinary (CSS-)sites in an acceptable way.
That's not to say I don't appreciate the effort of the programmers of both AWeb and IBrowse! I find it highly admirable people are still working to improve those programs and I sincerely hope they will be able to come up with a version of their respective programs which both support more up-to-date webstandards and will be able to display the average website in an acceptable amount of time on any of mu nicely upgraded classic Amigas.
Sorry, but I can't agree with you on the quality of browsing the web on the Amiga. Imo, it's absolute torture. Unfortunately, it is (again imo) the one area the Amiga is severely lacking. Games, video, music, dtp, databases, wordprocessing, programming, mail, chat, ftp: it all works great. But browsing the web? Nah...
