Re: CHAT: browsers

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
>>Hmm.  Has your shop considered using VMware?
>
> Nope, they do the contrary here: we have Exceed under Windows NT. Not that I
> ever use it though.
Well, you can get VMWare for Windows NT, so it's not opposite.

> LOL. It's true that it's reason enough to use it ;))) . But doesn't it make
> Windows slow?
Not in my experience. If you have enough RAM it behaves very nicely. (I
have run version 1 on a 32 MB Ram computer, but running X on such a
beast is an accomplishment in itself.)

> Completely something else, back to browsers. I have found what must be the
> smallest browser there is for Windows! It's normally part of TeX Converter (the
> graphical front-end to (La)TeX-to-HTML programs like HeVeA, TtH, TeX4ht or
> LaTeX2HTML), but the author of TeX Converter makes it available as a separate
> program at http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/browser.exe. It runs only when IE is
> present too (so it seems to be somewhat like Phoenix is for Mozilla)
So it's really cheating, isn't it? It still uses however much RAM
Internet Explorer uses so it isn't really the smallest browser. Netscape
Mosaic 0.9 (a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0) could fit on a
floppy disk; I don't think you'd ever be able to do that to IE. (I've
heard of another browser that advertises it can fit on a floppy, but
given it claims to support ActiveX controls (or whatever they are), I'm
guessing it cheats as well.)

> but it's
> extremely fast and is only 50*kb* large!!!! Now if you find smaller for Windows
> please show me, I'd be really interested in seeing that!
Do you actually mean 50 kilobits? I don't think it's possible to write a
   Windows program in that little space. Normally I'd assume you meant
50 kibibytes (50 KiB), but you normally use o for (8-bit) bytes (which I
advocate given that no-one seems to remember the difference between b
and B, any more than m and M (440 ML cans certainly are giant, but I
don't think they could fit one, let alone 24 in a box that small). The
metric system might be brilliantly simple to use, but whoever decided
how to write it has a lot to answer for).

Tristan.

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