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The requirements of the two WWW browsers are as follows 

         IBrowse R7a       Aweb 2.0
WB   :   WB3.0, 3.1       WB3.0, 3.1
MEM  :     3 Megs           2 Megs
680?0:     68000            68000
SOFT :      MUI             DTYPES
First of all, IBrowse is not completely stable. I have had it crash on me a few times and un-validate my harddrive. Which gets rather annoying, (It doesn't really matter though, as I have a separate partition for testing Internet software). I have never had Aweb 2.0 crash on me (However 1.1 and 1.2 were rather unstable)

IBrowse used to be the leader in graphics display, but is no longer now that the v43 datatypes have been released. The graphics on Aweb and IBrowse are evenly matched, except that Aweb goes about 2 times faster so makes scrolling down the graphics smoother. The buttons on IBrowse are definatley prettier than the AWeb buttons, and the transfer animation is cute (you can also change these with ones that users have created). Okay, it's completely usless to have, but the snake like thing for IBrowse is better than the moving square in Aweb. (Thank you to all the people who wrote me and informed me what the IBrowse anim was. It is not a snake it is discs moving around a man.)

Configurablity is the one of the main features for Aweb, granted on IBrowse you can drag and drop the icon bar and other things to change their positions (Just like Windoze 95). In Aweb the icon bar is on the top, and thats the way it stays. However in AWeb you have more fonts that you can change, you can change the screen mode internally (instead of going through MUI), and you can change the HTML settings. This was one of the neatest features I found, you can change the level of commands that AWeb accepts in case it finds a page it doesn't like.

IBrowse does support more HTML commands than AWeb but not many, AWeb 2.0 will do tables, color fonts, font sizing, line sizing, and all those other goodies. I'm not even sure what commands IBrowse supports that AWeb doesn't.

Final Ratings

Speed

AWeb is atleast 2 times as fast as IBrowse at everything. Graphics display, disk caching and everything else.

IBrowse 83% | AWeb 96%

Graphics Display

Both are evenly matched for the look of inline graphics, however AWeb's superior scrolling speed increases the niceness of its display

With v43 datatypes
IBrowse 91% | AWeb 97%

Without v43 datatypes
IBrowse 91% | AWeb 84%

HTML3.2 Support

AWeb 2.0 does almost as many commands as IBrowse does, however there are some it doesn't support, you won't notice this unless you have the two programs side by side and stare at them all day

IBrowse 98% | AWeb 96%

Features

IBrowse has those nice drag n drop icon bars, and supposedly will do mail if you register the program. This doesn't compete with AWeb's plugins and exstensive configurability though

IBrowse 85% | AWeb 96%

Overall

AWeb adds up to be the better browser, it has more features, does most of the HTML commands IBrowse will do and is quicker.

WINNER! AWeb 94%

IBrowse 90%