Comments on: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:49:25 +0000

Ha, the good old Corporate Repository; I thought that was still around; doesn't WebIV source from there?

I also had an InterOffice launch t-shirt, and an Oracle 8 one too, which I still have somewhere. I remember supporting 16-bit Office on Win 95, so much fun.

You've given me an idea

By: Scotty

Scotty — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:36:33 +0000

Now you need to bring back the Corporate Repository, the NC (huge t-shirt crowd at OOW for this one back in the day, and Oracle Office and Interoffice

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:16:40 +0000

It's way faster because it skips over stuff like CSS and images. So, for reading content, it's awesome, but the broken images kind of get in the way.

You can try it out if you like

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:15:19 +0000

Wow, weird. Thanks for the tip. Damn that's a very complete abstract on the problem.

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:55:15 +0000

Wow. And I thought that I was going down memory lane when I surf on my cell phone (which uses a browser equivalent to Internet Explorer 4). It just goes to show you that when a developer writes an application, he/she has no way how the application will work (or won't work) a mere ten years later.

Just out of curiosity, does Oracle PowerBrowser 1.5 run faster (albeit in limited form) than today's browsers? Or are there too many variables that affect browser speed?

By: Chris Heller

Chris Heller — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:34:21 +0000

Read this for some ideas on solving the "when I give my virtual machine more memory, it runs slower problem".

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/146002