| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 20 Apr 2001 at 00:59:47 |
| Subject: | Re: Voyager Image Decoders |
Hello Andy
On 19-Apr-01, you wrote:
> Hello Matt
>
> On 19-Apr-01, you wrote:
>
>>> But can you say it is fully functioning as from the current public beta,
>>> without non-public MUI 3.9beta?
>>
>> Yep. I flip back and forth between 3.8 and 3.9 regularly. The only
>> differences are aesthetics and speed in reality, MUI 3.8 is remarkably
>> free of bugs.
>
> But fully functioning? As in a complete solution, all featues there.
Depends what you mean by "all features". It lays out HTML quite well.
Javascript is fully functional, the only thing missing is DOM exposure
which is a different matter.
A lot of the features you complain about are in MUI 3.9 - and if you're
running MorphOS then you get to see them (cursor scrolling, wheel
support.. :)
>> So Voyager is worse at dithering certain things than others. Datatypes
>> would not cure this by any means, nor would PPC datatypes. Neither would
>> some miraculous thing OTHER than getting a 16bit display.
>
> So your statement that voyager if far better than Ibrowse for image decoding
> was not correct then. I agree that datatypes aren't the solution at the
> moment. But you said that Ibrowse has poor dithering which it doesn't.
It does have poor dithering, in that the dithering is so noticable. IMO the
grainy output is bad. Okay, so V loses definition on certain areas on
certain types of image (seems to be fleshtones..) but it's overall dithering
quality is top notch: both browsers just seem to have not-perfect colour
matching (although V has been better in this regard for a long time)
> Although all this is irrelevant because everyone should be going PPC and
> getting a graphics card soon when OS4 and MorphOS. :-)
Same here, but not for OS4 (I have no need for PPC operating systems to be
honest, the 68k does me fine: it's the gfx card I want, and the PPC is the
only route I have that doesn't include buying an A4000 or a (spit) Mediator)
Thanks
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