Fortunately
they only made this assumption a few places, but figuring out
what broke was maddeningly fiddly.
...and for the record, the resulting (I assume) TenFourFox rocks!
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
There are multiple websites I use daily that load faster and better
on TenFourFox than on Safari on my PowerBookG4; the (on-topic) iMac
G3 is a no-contest win for it.
Cameron, thank you!
Anyone else surfing the web with a PowerPC Mac, I commend the above
site to your attention.
You, sir, are too kind. I'm really trying hard to get us to 17ESR and then
see where we are. You can play with 13 if you like, and 14 should be out
soon, along with the stable releases that we base on 10ESR.
But to answer my own trivia question, sizeof(bool) on PowerPC is 32 bits.
As a followup, there are at least some proposals that "the Web" should be
little-endian. Certain web apps that use native-endianness constructs like
ArrayBuffer will refuse to run on a big-endian system (Mozilla Broadway
comes to mind). It does turn out that, contrary to my posting on this
thread, that the PowerPC 970 can use the byte-shifting instructions like
lwbrx and friends, so I wonder what Microsoft's sticking point was. I'm
toying with implementing this anyway, though the W3C, characteristically,
is dragging its feet.
http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/24/the-little-endian-web/
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