From: Paul
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:54:40 +0100
Subject: Re: [TSSP] F A N T C: - It's NEW! - and needs some TSSP input
Hi All,
Revised browser list,
Greg IE5/W2k 5.00 warning message, otherwise ok.
Paul NS4.77/linux runs ok.
Marco IE5.5/W2k warning message, runs ok.
Stefan IE5/NT4.0 warning message, otherwise ok.
Kurt IE6/W2k 5.00 offline warning message, otherwise ok.
IE6/W2k 5.00 online warning message, very, very slow.
NS6/W2k 5.00 warning message, 200 times too slow.
Malcolm IE5.5/W95B+ warning message, otherwise ok.
Bert NS6/ME 60 times to slow.
NS7/ME didn't appear to run.
NS4.7/ME runs ok.
Matt AOL7/W98 warning message, otherwise ok.
Thanks Greg, I had to leave you off, not knowing your browser.
Looks like a clear picture has emerged.
Bert wrote:
> N7 N4 N6
> == == ==
> getting value of a form field 472 40 335 uSec
That does rather stand out. If it applied to object properties
as well as form field values (which are properties of document
objects), it would account for the slowness because geotc does a
lot of that.
I'll make up a test page to test this out. I just tried to
download NS7 but gave up on the 48Mbytes (14 hour download) of
bloatware. I don't think there's anything basically broken
about scripts on NS6/7, but it looks like geotc library is
exercising some weakness. If that's the case, I might be
able to fix it at this end. Referencing object properties is
one good candidate, so are array extensions.
Wonder if the registry fix for the IE warning message also fixes
same problem on AOL7? Does NS6 use the registry too? If so
it may 'borrow' the settings for IE if it doesn't have its own
slot.
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Paul Nicholson,
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Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.