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I have had my fun supporting Mosaic(which is basically the oldest browser that has available source) on my personal sites. You can even still run it on Ubuntu[

I have had my fun supporting Mosaic(which is basically the oldest browser that has available source) on my personal sites. You can even still run it on Ubuntu[1]. If you go back that far you can't really use much CSS though. Google's site actually works on Mosaic which is awesome. [1]: https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic

farnsworthy 9y ago
"your time machine is fueled up and ready to go"
xorcist 9y ago
lynx should also be available in every modern distribution. If the text shows up in lynx in any reasonable order, chances are that all the screen readers and other strange tools gets it right too.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  IIRC my Kubuntu has 'links' (maybe really links2) but not 'lynx' and no simlink?
pluma 9y ago
I'd think older browsers like Mosaic have problems with SSL/TLS, especially now that most web servers no longer support older (compromised) versions of those protocols and SNI (server name indication, allowing web servers to serve multiple domains over SSL from the same IP) wasn't a thing back in the days. I certainly remember taking a really old version of IE (2 or 3 I think?) for a spin and running into problems because it didn't support SNI.
- shakna 9y ago
  A lot of older browsers, like elinks or something, actually fork the process to call OpenSSL directly. So long as you update the OpenSSL library, the browser can make use of modern standards.
- extra88 9y ago
  IE didn't support SNI until IE7 and that was only if it was running on Vista, not XP. IE8-10 don't support TLS 1.1 or 1.2 by default. https://caniuse.com/#search=sni https://caniuse.com/#search=sni https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls https://caniuse.com/#feat=tls