How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY sour...

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Thu Jul 2 19:50:25 CDT 2015


the fun  think  about the old  lunx browser is  you  could run it on a  pc 
8088  old  system!
 
I have a pc speed little  laptop and  used the lynx    in  on the  road  
applications
 
 
we had a free net here in phx and many people  used it  for  ages...
it was  fun to use old machine   with lynx but if I wanted  to really  work 
 though  out  came   IE explorer  or netscape get   the fastest machine I 
could   get  and a t1 LINE  OR  EVENTUALLY MY OWN CABLE AND DSL  CONNECTION.  
Ed#  
 
 
In a message dated 7/2/2015 5:14:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
billdegnan at gmail.com writes:

I have  been using Mosaic on my OpenVMS system, almost unusable, but fun.
It's more  important in this day and age to keep up with the web publishing
standards  than maintain backward compatibility.  Google penalizes sites
that are  not mobile friendly in their rankings.  If you can't be found,
what's  the point?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Guzis  <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/2015 03:26 PM, Terry  Stewart wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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-computers.org.nz.htm
>>  .
>>
>> In doing this, I will probably need to say goodbye  to old browser
>> compatibility.  As in old I mean Netscape 4 or  earlier, and other 
pre-2000
>> browsers (and possibly IE 6, as it's  not very standard).
>>
>
> I've got a couple systems with  IE 6.1, but generally I go for Opera 10.64
> or thereabouts.  Still  very useful and not very demanding on system
>  resources.
>
> I'll let you know about your web page  later.
>
>  --Chuck
>
>
>



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