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mormegil
03-13-2003, 02:22 AM
What browser would you guys recommend for reading / posting on forums?
iebnn
03-13-2003, 06:16 AM
Opera.
CosmicBlend
03-13-2003, 07:20 AM
Opera or IE..
patrickl
03-13-2003, 07:29 AM
You mean on your Clie or on a PC?
mormegil
03-13-2003, 10:02 AM
Originally posted by patrickl
You mean on your Clie or on a PC?

on a clie
n2ifp
03-13-2003, 10:09 AM
I am still looking for one:(!

Esp. one with a widescreen view.
Token User
03-13-2003, 01:15 PM
We are between a rock and a hard place ...

Netfront does a great job of rendering the pages to the screen size - but has issues with the page size.
Web Pro is proxy based, and doesn't crash fall over with page sizes being too big (for the most part), but all that scrolling gets old real quick.

No widescreen web browsers.

Why, oh why wont they port Opera to PalmOS? Damn, if they can put Opera onto a set top box, into a cell phone, or onto a PPC, whay can't they port it to a PalmOS device. OS 5 has enough grunt.
iebnn
03-13-2003, 02:10 PM
Opera is the best on the PC because you can click Forward and it will know to click on the Next button on the web page (for multiple page threads). :)
phythone
03-21-2003, 10:03 AM
Opera is the best for me. But opera crashed with my win2000 system. :(
milmber
03-21-2003, 10:41 AM
NetFront works great ( with everything enabled - ie, tables, css, images) over my wifi link as long as you remember the following:

1. It won't load the cliesource main page -> so load the cliesource.com/forums/ page and get the active threads, etc from there....
2. Switch off the Cache. I know it sounds funny, but switching this off has allowed me to surf virtually anything, cnn.com, time.com, etc without page too large errors...weird....
3. Expect it to be a bit slower on your pda...rendering these web pages is a big job - even for a 200mhz arm cpu...
4. If a page seems to hang..ie takes longer than 5 secs to load...press the stop button and it will appear.
5. If netfront does not respond after you have clicked a link - click the same link again it normally responds quite promptly...
6. if you want it faster like blazer or xiino...disable tables and css...but you will have to compromise for that in messed up formatting..

I had a pocketpc before my clie, and even the browsers on the pocketpc promises a lot but fails to deliver..the only one there that was REALLY good was thunderhawk - which needed a subscription service and you have to surf through a proxy...so...all in all netfront does not a bad job for me considering the competition......