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I know I'm in the minority on this, but I love the feel of IE, it feels like the most OS-integrated browser I've ever used. Of course, Trident was based off the
by forgotmypw 7y ago
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I love the feel of IE, it feels like the most OS-integrated browser I've ever used. Of course, Trident was based off the same layout engine as MS Office, so that makes sense.
I still make my sites work in IE, down to IE4, and probably 1-3 too, I just haven't had a chance to test them yet.
I think that in the retro-computing world, IE will be one of the longest browsers still in use.
- unilynx 7y agoI don't know about IE1 and 3, but for IE2 (the one that shipped with NT4) you need at least, from what I remember: - no name-based virtual hosting (it does HTTP 1.0 but doesn't send Host headers) - avoid redundant whitespace (it's not collapsed) - wrap <style> and <script> contents in <!-- and // -->, otherwise they will be visible I've had to keep an application's webinterface IE2 compatible ("usable") for longer than I wanted to as the initial configuration (opening up ports and IP addreses) was generally done on the NT4 server in IE itself. (Once initial setup was done, further configuration could be done remotely with a more 'modern' browser, so fortunately only a few pages needed to be usable by IEs that old)
- forgotmypw 7y agoThanks for the info on the whitespace. I think I have a post-processing solution for that, which may work. I will work to find an NT4 original ISO and get IE2 that way. I've been doing the commenting thing, and found out that Mosaic treats >, not --> as the end of comment token, so I had to remove all > characters from my JS. :D