On 8 Mar 2001, at 16:14, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I was unable to do any online banking activities there because of all the
> javasnit. So then I thought I would just crank up my WIN95 machine and use
> MSIE 3.02. I couldn't even access the logon screen because of some stupid
> messages returned by MSIE saying that the security certificates were not
> valid. Then I called the technical support people who operate the online
> banking service and I told them about my problem.
Did you ask if there was a way to avoid using JavaScript? Tell them
JS is not very secure!
> Almost everyone
> on this list knows that MSIE 5.5 is probably one of the most ravaging
> devourer of computer resources out there. I certainly don't want to
> install anything on my 100 Mhz dozeware Pentium that will make it run any
> slower than it already does.
Well, actually, I had a 486DX2-66 (w/16 MB RAM) that I newly
installed W95 (original upgrade CD, but new install). I found IE5
faster than IE3. This was going to a non-technical person, and I
thought IE3 would be enough, but I wanted to try IE5 to see how it
ran. It seemed faster, but probably at the expense of more RAM
usage. This was after a failed attempt to get IE5 running on a 386. :/
> One thing that would really be cool would be a setup where
> I could log on with Lynx386 and then quickly switch over to MSIE 3.02 after
> the logon was accomplished.
Not possible, since it would all be encrypted. It would be like trying
to eavesdrop on your neighbours' phone calls simply by picking up
your own phone!
> Does anyone here know if you can run a DOS internet app while
> connected via of a dialup winsock connection?
STUB32? hmm something like VMWARE might work, if you enable
some "Internet connection sharing" in w95 like wingate et al. but
that's a LOT more cpu-intensive than IE5 ;-)
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Ben Hood
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