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"A HTTP proxy server that allows to use historical and obsolete web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering the web page in to a GIF image with ISMAP.
by quickthrower2 7y ago
"A HTTP proxy server that allows to use historical and obsolete web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering the web page in to a GIF image with ISMAP."
So it's a thin client terminal type of thing. I was really hoping it was done by a ridiculous number of polyfills!
- mrpatg 7y agoThat explains why they clicked in an input area then had to type and send the text outside of the page.
- TimTheTinker 7y ago> I was really hoping it was done by a ridiculous number of polyfills! I don’t think anyone who lived through supporting pre-IE8 browsers would willingly subject themselves again to such an exercise in frustration.
- dtech 7y agoIE 1.5's biggest feature was support for HTML tables. You'd have to use IE3 to even be able to execute IE's precedessor to Javascript!
- anoncake 7y agoI'm sure IE 1.5 has plenty of vulnerabilities you can use to add a Javascript interpreter.
- quickthrower2 7y agoWikipedia says IE2 has JS which really surprises me. I never tried IE2 - I got online in 1994 and IIRC I was using Mosaic. I didn't know of the existence of IE2, I don't remember how I got Mosaic but most likely it came on the CD that the ISP provided to get started. I have fond memories of the internet in that time. Not that it was better but it was more amazing given not having internet before. Sending an email was magic then, and to talk to someone in another country for free seemed amazing.
- jmkni 7y agoYou could probably have some fun with ActiveX if you were to target IE3 instead of IE1.