Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> An artificial limit does not offer the user a chance to remedy the >> situation himself by freeing up additional memory, so it is the most >> user-unfriendly and thus the worst solution I can think of. > I find it almost too humorous for words that someone thinks > that Arachne is failing in the "user friendly" arena. Hi, even though that statement of mine was related to the introduction of the artificial limit of 2000 displayed emails, which hopefully will now be obsolete, IMNSHO Arachne is still lacking in the user-friendliness department. For example, the download file requester leaves much to wish for. In the Netscape Navigator I have been using before I switched to Arachne, one would be asked for the file name even before the actual download started. NN would also show all files in the directory, let the user switch to another directory if needed and even ask him for confirmation if the filename already exists. Arachne, on the other hand, only knows one download directory, requires the user to type the path if he wants to store the file in a different location, does not inform the user about existing files and will even happily overwrite a file if he accidentally chooses the wrong name. The NN can also download several files at once, thereby making optimal use of the free bandwidth, while still allowing the user to continue browsing. Arachne limits the user to one download at a time and even requires him to wait for the download to finish until he can continue browsing. Several years ago, I asked Michael Polak to do something about these problems. I told him that I could rather do without Javascript or SSL than without a good file requester. Naturally, when the subject changed to things that Arachne does *not* support, he did not respond. :-/ Well, it is easy to say that Arachne is better than Netscape or Internet Explorer if your Windows is just a few key presses away. I would suggest that all the people on this list who would like to tell me how user-friendly Arachne is and how bad Windows is to just try to do without their Windows for a month, or perhaps only a week; then they would probably realise how much Arachne is lacking. Now that I have said what I think, go on and flame me for criticising Arachne if you like. ;-) Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --