I remember how cool it was to use the first gopher GUI, and how fast
that was followed by mosaic from ncsa... heady times those...
this is also a test to see if the list is getting better...
On 03/21/2018 08:19 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
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, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As long as netscape still works I am good.
*From:* Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:14 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*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)
<[email protected]> 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?
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