[WelMac] OS 8.0/8.1

[John Crook]

Miraz and David

Many thanks for your help on upgrading my friend's Centris 650.

I was amazed at the browser archive - just how many different  
browsers there are (were?).  Must be a real headache for web designers.

I'm now all equipped with some extra RAM - bought on TradeMe (hope it  
works), OS 8.0 CD (thanks David), OS upgrade to 8.1, Outlook Express  
5.0.6 (which I thought was a pretty nice e-mail client in its day)  
and Internet Explorer 5.1.7 (the last two supposed to be OK with OS  
8.1).

Now the proof of the pudding is in the eating!!  Hope it all works.

Cheers

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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