31 Oct
2008
31 Oct
'08
5:29 a.m.
2008/10/31 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
2008/9/22 Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>:
That's preposterous. I would blame the web master more than the
browser and machine.
I've been told using the compact Macs are an
exercise in futility. But what about the Mac II's? (original II, IIx, IIfx, IIcx).
I have tried 2 classic Macs on the Web in the last few years.
A maxed-out Classic II: 68030 @ 16MHz on a 16-bit bus, 10MB RAM, MacOS
7.6.1, Netscape 3 and 4, Dayna Ethernet-SCSI adaptor on 8Mb/s ADSL.
It worked in the theoretical sense: 25 *min* to render the top-left
corner of Slashdot. Later, I set up a Quadra 630 as a "media
centre". 25MHz 68040EC, 40MB
RAM, comms slot 10base-T Ethernet, MacOS 8.1, IE 4, Netscape Navigator
4.04 and Netscape Communicator 4.6, with Quicktime, Flash, Acrobat
Reader 3, stuff like that.
Again, it "worked". On the 630, OS 8.1 gave me Netscape 3 and IE 3.
Both pretty useless today; they can't render the Google homepage. I
put Netscape 4 and IE 4 onto a Zip disk from an OS X Mac, installed
'em and at least I could get online. Both really struggle with the C21
Web and rendering is dog-slow but if you exercise Buddha-like patience
you can use it. It's not unakin to being on dial-up.
I would use a browser like iCab (www.icab.de) on such systems. They
offer more modern features and adhere to newer standards. To speed
things up a bit, just override sites' CSS and always refer to a local,
bare-bones CSS. Properly built sites will then display pretty well
(Lynx-like, but usable).
.tsooJ