re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] MORE DETAILS
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Ed wrote:
|There are three solutions to this vicious attack on Windows 9x by Google
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First, it doesn't affect just M$'s ancient crap;
it's a wake-up call for ANYONE running ancient crap of ANY stripe.
As for IE6, it *barely* does HTML 3.2.
Doing HTML 4.0 is a distant dream for IE6 that will NEVER be realized.
Meanwhile, the world is moving on to HTML 5.
The only solution is to get a browser that supports the technologies being used.
This means getting an OS that supports apps with that tech.
In a quasi-recent blog, Brad Rodriguez
identifies this as a problem for folks hanging on to their low-RAM boxes.
cache
of http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/print.php?news.656
Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August.
Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view
Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions.
[...]its engineers were keen to make use of the latest capabilities in browsers,
and that required support for HTML5 technology.
[...]I'm quite certain that there will be no Google-compatible browser
that runs on a Pentium II with 192 MB of RAM.
...and, of course, Brad writes about Linux, which
(along with its compatible apps) is **currently** under development/support.
The range of browsers/versions available to Linux users
is MUCH wider than what is available to Win9x users
(Linux users can even run *multiple* versions of IE on the *same* box).[1]
All of this assumes that the box has enough RAM, of course.
Processor speed is another, lesser issue.
..and, oh yeah, Linux will run on your current hardware.
OK, you can go back to waving your fanboy hands in the air again,
shouting about how you are being persecuted.
[1] ...which is useful for Web developers.
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