If it is OS 8 then she is basically hosed. IIRC that is roughly the equivalent of win95, un supported, and unusable.
Firefox and Safari will only run on OSX. IE for the Mac is unusable; MS hasn't supported it in years. Looks like there is a version of Netscape, still fairly old, but will run on OS8 Here is a link: http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive70x.jsp Do you know what hardware it is currently running? My guess is that it will at least require and upgrade to OSX, if that hardware will support it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: stupid mac questions > > A friend of mine has been telling me how much trouble she is having > getting > on the web and/or getting email.... I finally rolled my eyes and went over > to her house and began to see her point as I tried to sign her up for > gmail > and did not get past the authentication page, then hotmail only to find > after filling out a long signup page that the submit button did not > display. > This was IE on... probably OS 8 by the look of it, though I could not > remember where to look to find out. Yahoo at least displayed a little > notice > suggesting she download mozilla or safari. I reassured her that these are > both reputable software, but did not start the download at the time as she > is on dialup and slow dialup at that. I just left her instructions on how > to > do it and suggested she start it before going to bed one night. > > I know she won't though, so I was going to do it for her, assuming her Mac > has a USB port (anyone know?)... but the immediate problem I am having is > that Mozilla does not appear to have a Mac download for earlier than OS X, > which, yes, is very different than 8. I am looking at the Safari page, but > I > am also remembering something from the days when I had a Mac... something > baout the data fork being different. So my question is that if I download > to > my thumb drive, which is FAT32, will it even do her any good? > > And before someone suggests a hardware upgrade -- not going to happen. I > actually do have an interest in solving this as this woman frequently > takes > my daughter to the homeschool coop and event updates go out by email, so > solving this would get me out of a lot of making sure she has heard about > x > y and z... > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > Dana > > > -- > "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a > confession > of their character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
