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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:

> On 2018-04-25, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:55:20 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>
>>> As to the Internet, more and more websites no longer operate
>>> on my browser.

I have little interest in most of the interactive "user experience"
websites.   I find only a few sites offering text that I want to read
that completely fail in Netscape 4.76. :-o  But the general move to
HTTPS means I have to use a newer browser (FF, Seamonkey) and even
then, many big sites are going to the latest encryption standard (TLS
2.0?) and won't load at all.  So the web is gradually going dark and
will continue to do so until I (a) upgrade to a much newer browser and
(b) figure out how to to defeat all the penc that recent browsers want
or try do do for me, in some cases insiste on doing. (How do I make a
browser ignore all <LINK... tags?  Netscape does it because it's too
primitive to handle them -- a big win.)


Yes, a few sites do stuff that crashes Netscape.  One such item is
<BODY... tags that contain kilobytes of data before the closing '>'.
And <IMG... tags fail that have no SRC attribute but use other cute
locutions to reference the data.

Some sites that are, in principle, simple info sites with text and
images are (I surmise) constructed by some kind of authoring tools or
proprietary cloud tools and consist entirely of javascript.  Nothing
I've tried renders them.  My newest test bed box with Slackware
14.2 and FF 45 might when I finally finish making FF stop doing things
I hate and give it a try on them.

>> So have you installed Firefox or Chrome?  More and more web sites
>> don't work on ANY Microsoft browser you know.
> 
> Seamonkey works fine for me.

Right.  The only site I visit where I really want HTTPS and related
security stopped working with the version of FF I was using but works
fine with Seamonkey from the same distro.  What's the notion behind
Mozilla providing both Seamonkey and FF?  Seamonkey seems to be
marginally better and less slathered with UX "features" than FF.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada