Email conversation
| From | Jakk |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Other browsers not on your website |
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| Date | 12 February 2006 11:18 |
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Hi there
Nice website. Too much to take in in one go but it is (hopefully) at my
level and I have bookmarked it so I can come back and chew a bit more off
and then digest that and so on.
In the tutorials you refer to a good list of browsers. and your list of
tested browsers at http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html is
definitely impressive!
Now, what about taking a look at a couple of really sweet tiny
micro-browsers for Windows which I came across and which have a really tiny
footprint. Both are freeware and AFAICT they are not using an underlying IE
engine (correct me if I am wrong).
(1) The 'OffByOne' browser http://www.offbyone.com/ (about 1 MB download)
"The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web
browser with full HTML 3.2 support", etc.
(2) The 'I JINI' browser http://ijini.batcave.net/ (about 0.8 MB download)
Says "under construction"
| From | Me |
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| To | Jakk |
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| Subject | Re: Other browsers not on your website |
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| Date | 26 February 2006 23:19 |
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Jakk,
> Nice website.
Thanks.
> Now, what about taking a look at a couple of really sweet tiny
> micro-browsers for Windows which I came across and which have a really tiny
> footprint. Both are freeware and AFAICT they are not using an underlying IE
> engine (correct me if I am wrong).
Generally, I only deal with browsers that support enough JavaScript to be
capable of DHTML, and/or a respectable amount of CSS, neither of which are
supported by OffByOne. HTML 3.0 is seriously out of date; HTML 4 has been
around and well supported for about 8 years, so anything that fails to
support HTML 4 is outdated, and is also not doing its users (or Web
developers) any favours at all.
In general, Windows users are not interested in browsers that have limited
capabilities - browsers such as Lynx are popular on Linux and UNIX, but they
are almost unused on Windows. The only reason that I mention those browsers
is to remind developers to use them as development aids to check that their
sites are accessible. They do not need to test with more than one or two,
and it is better that they test with a really low capability browser such as
Lynx.
(The only reason I tested some of the others for speed is because they are
in common use on Linux/UNIX.)
If OffByOne makes it to the required capabilities, then I will add
information for it as well.
With Ijini, you may find this enlightening:
http://www.matthewman.net/articles/2004/01/28/smaller-my-arse
It's just another IE skin. Nothing new or impressive in that (if I remember
right, this was the browser that claimed to be fast because it enabled a
cache feature that IE already has enabled anyway).
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/