[rescue] Getting back into Sun - Blade 100 or Ultra 5?

[Alan Perry]

A “current browser” is one that displays current web sites in a reasonable manner. Most current web sites require the bloatware.

When I am demo’ing my sun4c/4m machines with Solaris 2.4-7, I include browsing well known sites with old browsers to show how things have changed.

alan

> On Nov 21, 2024, at 12:57, Mouse via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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>> A current browser would be tough, not sure of options there...
> 
> It depends on whether you really mean "current browser" or something
> actually more like "major bloatware browser", which is what some
> entities seem to mean by that.
> 
> If you really do mean "current", well, lynx is still being
> maintained-and-developed.
> 
> Of course, you may have trouble because most of the modern Web insists
> on ramming HTTPS down everyone's collective throat, and the
> computational cost of HTTPS is enough to be a problem for slower
> machines (which these days includes most of what this list cares
> about).  But there's not much to be done about that, except refusing to
> have anything to do with websites that antisocial.
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