Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

2016-07-15 Thread TJ Edmister
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:03 -0400, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > wrote: >> >> This said, I also admit browsing from DOS >> is going to be less and less practical. >> Lynx 2.8.5 supports

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

2016-07-15 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all Just a heads up that I'm doing some planned maintenance on the FreeDOS www website tomorrow, Saturday, July 16. Not sure when I'll start, but watch Twitter @freedos_project for updates. This isn't a website update, this is just moving the website to a new Amazon instance. I mentioned that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

2016-07-15 Thread Corbin Davenport
I mostly agree with the sentiments towards HTML5 here. One of my biggest gripes is that websites are now attempting to emulate the appearance and functionality of native apps with useless animations and twenty JavaScript libraries that make my Core i5 machine slow. But I think this is just the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

2016-07-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), I'm pretty sure Links2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

2016-07-15 Thread Dale E Sterner
My bank was planning to swithch to html 5. I told them that if I located a bank using html 4 that I would close my accounts and move to that bank. They are still using html 4. If everybody did that maybe this constant upgrade crap would stop. cheers DS On Sat, 16 Jul 16 00:32:09 +

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

2016-07-15 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/15/2016 5:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), but I cannot > access Wikipedia with it, because the > algorithms they