[WelMac] OS 8.0/8.1

[John Crook]

Thanks Miraz

I had forgotten how bad Netscape 4 was - and bloatware at that. At  
the moment there are very few web pages my friend can view  
successfully, although fortunately Google is one of them.

If I move him to one of the other browsers I may need to find him  
another e-mail client as well (preferably free).  Any thoughts on this?

I'll happily explore the browser options you've suggested.

All the best

John

On 7 Apr 2006, at 8:24 PM, Miraz Jordan wrote:

> At 5:33 PM +1200 7/4/06, John Crook wrote:
>> However, web browsing's pretty limited with a browser that doesn't
>> even know about Java  and frames etc.
>>
>> I'd like to help him to get as far forward as he can with the
>> technology he's got.  I checked with MacTracker and found that his
>> machine will work up to OS 8.1, and I've found Netscape 4.7.9 which
>> will work on OS 8.1 and has some Java capability.
>
> Oh, please, No! Netscape 4.x is the bane of web designers lives as it
> was, and is, truly shocking at rendering modern web pages. That
> browser would be doing your friend a disservice.
>
> Netscape 4 doesn't just fail to render pages properly; it actively
> screws them up really badly.
>
> You need this archive of web browsers:
>
> http://browsers.evolt.org/
>
> Perhaps Internet Explorer 5 would run? That could be a reasonable
> choice as it was pretty good in its day:
>
> http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/browsers/ie/mac/5.0
>
> iCab would be worth a try:
>
> http://browsers.evolt.org/?icab/ppc
>
> The problem is that although many of use are trying to design
> websites that will work satisfactorily with older browsers there are
> many many features of modern websites which really push people into
> current browsers, and therefore modern OSes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Miraz
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