On 4/11/24 04:21, Bret Busby wrote:
On 3/11/24 21:43, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm working on a weird personal proof-of-concept project.
A HTML 5 compatible browser will *NOT* be considered.
I would really prefer a product aimed at HTML 2.
In any case CSS and/or JavaScript will not be used.
[Before I get flamed on supposed security issues - system will be
isolated from web by design.]
I would prefer it operate under 64 bit Debian 12.
Operation under i386 Debian 9 would be acceptable.
Any suggestions?
TIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#HTML_version_timeline
shows
"
HTML version timeline
HTML 2
November 24, 1995
HTML 2.0 was published as RFC 1866. Supplemental RFCs added capabilities:
November 25, 1995: RFC 1867 (form-based file upload)
May 1996: RFC 1942 (tables)
August 1996: RFC 1980 (client-side image maps)
January 1997: RFC 2070 (internationalization)
HTML 3
January 14, 1997
HTML 3.2[15] was published as a W3C Recommendation. It was the first
version developed and standardized exclusively by the W3C, as the IETF
had closed its HTML Working Group on September 12, 1996.[16]
Initially code-named "Wilbur",[17] HTML 3.2 dropped math formulas
entirely, reconciled overlap among various proprietary extensions and
adopted most of Netscape's visual markup tags. Netscape's blink element
and Microsoft's marquee element were omitted due to a mutual agreement
between the two companies.[13] A markup for mathematical formulas
similar to that of HTML was standardized 14 months later in MathML.
"
So, for HTML 2, you probably want a web browser from 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers
shows, for 1996, the available web browsers were
"
1996 Lynx Netscape Opera IE Mac IE
Jan 2.0B*
Feb
Mar 2.0
Apr 2.0 2.0
May 2.5
Jun
Jul
Aug 3.0 3.0 2.1
Sep 2.6
Oct
Nov
Dec 2.10
"
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser
is
"1996 Amaya 0.9,[48] Arachne 1.0, AWeb, Cyberdog, Internet Explorer
3.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, Opera 2.0, PowerBrowser 1.5,[49] Voyager"
You want the applicable web browser to run on Debian.
So, you would probably need to be running Lynx 2.6, or Netscape 3.0, or
Opera 2.10, running on Debian Buzz or Debian Rex.
Sorry - that last sentence should have been instead,
"So, you would probably need to be running Lynx 2.6, or Netscape
Navigator 3.0, or Opera 2.10, running on Debian Buzz or Debian Rex."
I was referring to only the web browser component, and, in version 3.0,
Netscape had more.
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape is
"
Netscape Navigator was Netscape's web browser from versions 1.0–4.8. The
first beta versions were released in 1994 and were called Mosaic and
later Mosaic Netscape. Then, a legal challenge from the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (makers of NCSA Mosaic), which many of
Netscape's founders used to develop, led to the name Netscape Navigator.
The company's name also changed from Mosaic Communications Corporation
to Netscape Communications Corporation.
The browser was easily the most advanced available and so was an instant
success, becoming a market leader while still in beta. Netscape's
feature-count and market share continued to grow rapidly after version
1.0 was released. Version 2.0 added a full email reader called Netscape
Mail, thus transforming Netscape from a single-purpose web browser to an
Internet suite. The email client's main distinguishing feature was its
ability to display HTML email. During this period, the entire suite was
called Netscape Navigator.
Version 3.0 of Netscape (the first beta was codenamed "Atlas") was the
first to face any serious competition in the form of Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0. But Netscape remained the most popular browser at that time.
Netscape also released a Gold version of Navigator 3.0 that incorporated
WYSIWYG editing with drag and drop between web editor and email components.
"
Okay, what I meant, was the web browser component of Netscape Navigator
3.0 ...
Probably just simpler, if you want a minimalist web browser for HTML 2,
is to run Lynx 2.6 on Debian Buzz or Debian Rex.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............
