Just wanted to say - a big thankyou for everyones help - I now have my imac up and running!
Cheers On May 4, 6:23 am, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:56 -0700 5/3/09, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > >It will work just fine. The only problem is nobody is still doing up to date > >web browsers for OS 9.x.x. iCab 3.0.5 Classic or Opera 6.0.2 are pretty much > >the newest. I dunno why Opera has abandoned the Classic Mac OS when their > >latest version 9.6.4 is available in a Classic installer for Windows 95! > > I think the biggest problem is the utter lack of support for emerging web > standards. Cascading style sheets are still not compliant with CSS-2 in iCab > 3. Javascript keeps changing and the ECMA specification is all iCab 3 can do. > Many pages now use stuff that can and will cause memory overflow errors when > rendered in iCab 3. A module developed by someone else is apparently very > difficult to fix or upgrade to changed Javascript. > > Modern browsers can use things like the the OS X webkit and other open-source > rendering aids that support a "standard" document object model (DOM). When > someone changes the web rules the kits get changed and the browsers continue > to work. Too many pages just refuse to work at all without Javascript. > > But my SE/30 and OS 7.5 will talk via broadband on a DSL line just fine. > Netpresenz by Stairways still works fine. > > -- > --> If you are presented a number as a percentage, and you do not clearly > understand the numerator and the denominator involved, you are surely being > lied to. <-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
