I remember when lynx was an acceptable Web browser. But again I also remember when the Web didn't exist and it was email, ftp, telnet, and gopher.
On Mar 18, 2018 12:35 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > As long as netscape still works I am good. > > *From:* Sean Heskett > *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:14 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Require Recent Web Browser? > > Use modern technologies. Your customer base is tech savvy enough and > should not be using old browsers and if they are then too bad. > > 2 cents > > -sean > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:49 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) < > li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > >> A bit of a survey here.... >> >> A couple of features I'm looking at for current/future products would be >> much easier to implement using a certain feature found only in relatively >> new web browsers, aka, Chrome/Firefox/Edge updated within the last year. >> >> One specific browser feature I'm looking at is webassembly. Various >> tools out there indicate that around 87% of the installed/active browsers >> on the internet are recent enough for native support. Most of the >> browsers gained support for this feature early to mid last year. With >> autoupdates being the rule instead of the exception, anyone on a recent >> auto-updating web browser should support this. I'm mostly concerned about >> 'the rest'. >> >> Support for the older browsers is possible, but it adds a level of >> complexity (specifically a level of testing) which I would prefer not to do >> if I could get away without it. >> >> To be clear: Almost all of the functionality of the upcoming products >> won't require these functions. A specific example of something that might >> require this is setting up the scripting functionality as I'm looking at >> various technologies which would work best if I could run a chunk of >> webassembly code in the browser as part of the code editor. However, other >> than editing a script, the rest of the functionality would work fine. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* >> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g> >> forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> >> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >> >>
