How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?
3 Jul
2015
3 Jul
'15
9:27 a.m.
Jerome H. Fine wrote:
> Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>
>> >Terry Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my
>>> classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile
>>> platforms. I
>>> want to modernise the code as well, making it as close to HTML5
>>> standard as
>>> I can
>>>
>>> The RetroChallenge blog site is here.
>>>
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2015-06-29-recoding-classic-comput…
>>
>> I checked this site under WinXP and found no problems. The software
>> is very old, but a quick search did not locate the version.
>
> As I mentioned, I backup up my Win98SE system, then accessed all
> of the links under Netscape 7.2 without any problems.
Sorry about the SPAM KEY being included in the Subject line. The
server which handles my e-mail frequently does that and I forget to
remove it from the Subject line when I reply.
Jerome Fine
3 Jul
3 Jul
3:02 p.m.
It loads up fine using Mozilla/5.0 or SWB V1.1-12 based
on Seamonkey
1.1.12 (or
.......<snip>...
Looks grand in Lynx too. Highlighting "IBM XT" and pressing enter
downloads
the picture and displays it using XV as expected.
Great, thanks Peter.
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Well, define "properly". Lynx gives me
("| " prefix added manually for
email purposes)
Thanks Mouse. At least the text shows up.
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I checked this site under WinXP and found no problems.
The software
is very old, but a quick search did not locate the version.
....
As I mentioned, I backup up my Win98SE system, then accessed all
of the links under Netscape 7.2 without any problems
Thanks Jerome.
Under WinXP, I looked over your page on emulators. I
don't know
i>f you consider the PDP-11 and the VAX as classic, but they were
not
included.
I think you've misunderstood the purpose of that page. It only shows the
emulators of models I have in my "classic" collection. It's not a list of
everything I would deem "classic" (which is a subjective term anyway).
Some of the computers in my collection not even I would consider worthy of
that term, although I do enjoy having them.
Terry, I have not seem any response yet. Did you see
my reply?
When I woke up I did. I was in bed sleeping.
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Thanks for others who also responded. I'm going ahead with what I proposed
and have converted my whole blog section to what I'd devised in the
template..
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/index.htm
Now to gradually work through the rest of the site. The collection section
is already 1/2 done but I need to add the navigation links.
Cheers
Terry
3:33 p.m.
I can't imagine using NS 4 as my ONLY browser--I've tried, but there
will always be a web site using more modern elements that won't render
correctly.
So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as their ONLY browsers?
Wow--I'm surprised that your employer allows that.
I'm always researching and looking things up. Sometimes even Opera
won't render correctly. Then there's the matter of useful plugins
available for more modern browsers that allows me to suppress or filter
advertising content that seems to dominate much of today's web.
So how many use Lynx to download their Netflix videos?
--Chuck
5:04 p.m.
So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as
their ONLY
browsers? Wow--I'm surprised that your employer allows that.
What's my (putative) employer got to do with it? My employer does not
get to tell me what I may or may not use for what little Web browsing I
do on my own time on my own machines.
At work, on work time, on work machines, that's another story. But I
don't do non-work stuff that way.
Then there's the matter of useful plugins
available for more modern
browsers that allows me to suppress or filter advertising content
that seems to dominate much of today's web.
My experience is that turning off Javascript makes much of it go away
and that turning off image loading deals with almost all of the rest.
At least, when I've investigated the source to ad-infested pages, the
ads usually prove to be either javascript or images. Perhaps this is
an artifact of the pages I end up looking at.
So how many use Lynx to download their Netflix videos?
What Netflix videos? I don't/won't use Netflix, in large part because
of the whole Web thing.a
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5:31 p.m.
On 07/03/2015 05:04 PM, Mouse wrote:
What's my (putative) employer got to do with it?
My employer does not
get to tell me what I may or may not use for what little Web browsing I
do on my own time on my own machines.
At work, on work time, on work machines, that's another story. But I
don't do non-work stuff that way.
The topic was "How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as
their ONLY source of web content?"
If you do web browsing at work on anything other than an old browser, it
would seem that you violate the spirit of the topic.
At lesat that's the way I read it.
--Chuck
4 Jul
4 Jul
9:37 a.m.
> What's my (putative) employer got to do with
it? [...]
The topic was "How many use old browsers (e.g.
=< Netscape 4 or IE 6)
as their ONLY source of web content?"
If you do web browsing at work on anything other than
an old browser,
it would seem that you violate the spirit of the topic.
Possibly. Depending on what the OP cared about, I may or may not be an
example.
I don't do generic "Web browsing" on work machines; what I use them for
is work tools that don't have usable non-"Web" interfaces. Depending
on whether that counts as a "source of web content", I may or may not
be an example of what the OP wanted. (If "web content" means "anything
delivered over HTTP", it clearly is; if it refers to content from
arm's-length third parties, it isn't. And there's a whole spectrum in
between.)
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3 Jul
3 Jul
6:33 p.m.
On 7/3/2015 4:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I can't imagine using NS 4 as my ONLY
browser--I've tried, but there
will always be a web site using more modern elements that won't render
correctly.
So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as their ONLY browsers?
Wow--I'm surprised that your employer allows that.
I'm always researching and looking things up. Sometimes even Opera
won't render correctly. Then there's the matter of useful plugins
available for more modern browsers that allows me to suppress or filter
advertising content that seems to dominate much of today's web.
So how many use Lynx to download their Netflix videos?
--Chuck
I have this thing called *TV* and shiny things called DVD's.
Everything since then is marking crap like PC's...
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