- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 05:16:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI EO <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Perhaps not the most fully-featured browser... Charles McCN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > I have recently switched to WannaBe <http://mindstory.com/wb2/, a text > only browser, as my default browser > > It's author, David T. Pierson, explains that > > <Pierson> > WannaBe is written to be lean and fast. The aim in writing WannaBe was not > to create a full-featured browser. Rather, I wanted a browser that allowed > me to read my favorite web pages each morning without gobbling up several > megabytes of RAM (WannaBe requires 2M) and without wasting time waiting for > tables to render. It is quite limited in that it doesn't support images, > tables, forms, bookmarks, cookies and several other features. But it does > support the HTTP 1.1 "Host:" header, proxy servers, links to frames and > images, multiple threads, and copying of text. > </Pierson> > > It's super quick and if I find a page, which I rarely do, that actually > needs the fancy stuff (ie where the graphics or scripting does something > useful instead of only decorative), I can switch to Netscape. >
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