Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped IE4.0.1 is the end of support for 68k which is as far as we need to go here, thankfully the browser wars will never end on 68k macs. ;) Opps are you saying that my IIsi will not run anything later

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Mark Benson
On Jan 24, 2004, at 08:25 pm, Darren wrote: Marcin Wichary wrote: : They really said that, since they are no longer developing IE as a : standalone product, future versions of it will appear in future : versions of Windows. True, but I think they retracted that comment a day or a couple of

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Darren
Mark Benson wrote: Ignoring all that off topic stuff Marcin, its a 68k list so windows 3.1 is about as close to topic as possible and that would require a 040. I think you will find the parallel equivalent to an 040 is a 486, which will run Windows 95 happily, and thus IE 5.1 (maybe) A

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread david
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it means 4.0.1 is the last version open to you which can also be patched for 128 bit secure transfers. Gamba's site, as always and follow the browser link. From there you find a browser that suits your needs, I prefer NS3.04 gold but its very

Cyberdog

2004-01-25 Thread Darren
http://www.cyberdog.org/dogbones/#apple A interesting program. Hard to use well now as the web out grew it. Still worth a play. Like any app made by Apple it has some features you wont find anywhere else. No Java script, but java and a host of plug-ins. I believe another lister may have been

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Marten van de Kraats
This maybe olde news for you. But for me it was/is new news. Therefore not knowing it was old news I shared. And from what I seem to be hear MAC doesn't have a real functional browser out there. For vintage macs netscape 4.7.x and icab are pretty functional, but not really. In general older

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread J.S. Garrison
on 1/25/04 7:51 AM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Benson wrote: Ignoring all that off topic stuff Marcin, its a 68k list so windows 3.1 is about as close to topic as possible and that would require a 040. I think you will find the parallel equivalent to an 040 is a 486,

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Powermac
- Original Message - From: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:43 PM Subject: Re: MS will not be suporting IE On a damfool whim this summer I set up a 486SLC with I.E. 5.0 and went online with it. It worked with 16MB of

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I've had bad, bad luck with Netscapes from 1.1n to 4.76. 4.8 pretty much got all the long standing bugs squashed and is apparently going to be the absolute final version in the 4.xx line. = Say hello to Juror #49. Yep, I'm on jury duty until

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with microsoft is that old browsers are being retired (as in not available for download from microsoft). I recently tried to get a browser for my Win 3.11 test box and found microsoft doesnt have it for download anymore (I had to hunt

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread J.S. Garrison
on 1/25/04 5:14 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I've had bad, bad luck with Netscapes from 1.1n to 4.76. 4.8 pretty much got all the long standing bugs squashed and is apparently going to be the absolute final version in the

Re: MS will not be suporting IE

2004-01-25 Thread J.S. Garrison
on 1/25/04 4:02 PM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with microsoft is that old browsers are being retired (as in not available for download from microsoft). I recently tried to get a browser for my Win 3.11 test box and found microsoft doesnt have it for download anymore