LWN: Comments on "Two discontinued browsers"

Mac OS 9?

thomask — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:14:09 +0000

I occasionally used to use a Mozilla port on MacOS 9, and it quite often caused hard system freezes. Such are the joys of non-segmented systems.

IE is discontiuned on windows too...

dps — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:35:55 +0000

If you do not use windows XP then IE 6.5 is the last version avialable. IE 7 came out for windows XP only (although the binary might work on windows 2000). Given the insecurity of IE 6.5 you might suggest that M$ is leaving a lot of people the lurch, hoping that the path of least resistance is to upgrade to XP (and increase microsoft's profits in the process).

Incidently mozilla, firefox, seamonkey, etc are still the only browsers to support multipart/replace-media (aka server push). You *can* implement progress meters with client pull (I have) but it much harder and less reliable.

Hopefully the number of people that can use IE will dwindle to something small enough that IE only website design is unsustainable. M$ can fail: active X controls got absolutely not market share whatsoever, modulo applications like billing your credit card.

Mac OS 9?

xoddam — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:49:46 +0000

Surely the Macintosh port of Mozilla will run on Mac OS 9?

Or are you referring to the original OS-9?

Two discontinued browsers

cventers — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:28:26 +0000

Yes... the first thing I did after installing KDE 3.5 was google for
"acid2 test". That was a cool feeling :)

Two discontinued browsers

pointwood — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:14:02 +0000

Safari has been available for quite some time and it is quite good. Just check out Konqueror in KDE 3.5. It has become a really nice browser.

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vblum — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:27:35 +0000

Ouch, 2003; Freudian typo?

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njhurst — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:05:26 +0000

Did MacOSX or IE exist in 1993? What do you mean?

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csamuel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:54:46 +0000

Does Tiger even ship with IE these days ?

I think the writing has been on the wall for IE sites and Macs for some
time now..

Two discontinued browsers

vblum — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:43:08 +0000

IE has long been irrelevant on modern OS X. It was outdated already in 1993. The news items on this are far overblown IMO.

I also see that web sites explicitly support Safari nowadays (at least that is built on open source code in parts).

The real reason not to worry is Firefox, of course. It works. There is no need for IE on OS X.

Two discontinued browsers

kleptog — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:49:50 +0000

I guess one positive side is that IE-only sites can't claim to support Macs anymore. Places like banks have always been willing to write off Linux desktops as fringe elements. But to exclude Macs aswell might just be to much to swallow.

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fwenzel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:16:47 +0000

Honestly, IE on Mac was outdated since a long time already. (It is on windows, too, but thats a different topic).

Therefore it's a great opportunity for people to start using a browser that is "state of the art".

The only problem I see is with OS 9 users. There are still quite a few of them out there and they might have the biggest problems with the discontinuation of IE.

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*Mac* OS 9?

IE is discontiuned on *windows* too...

*Mac* OS 9?

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Mac OS 9?

IE is discontiuned on windows too...

Mac OS 9?