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Hmm. If the server-side app requires CSS/HTML4 and the client has to run on Win3.1, how about writing a proxy? The proxy would present a simplified HTML3.2 inte
by cstross 14y ago
Hmm. If the server-side app requires CSS/HTML4 and the client has to run on Win3.1, how about writing a proxy? The proxy would present a simplified HTML3.2 interface, and handle interpreting Javascript events and managing cookies to support a session talking to the server?
(It's a horrible kludge, but if it saves $150,000 ...)
- ryanpetrich 14y agoSounds exactly like Opera Mini.
- thaumaturgy 14y agoProxies like you're talking about are prone to lots of edge-cases that make them less fun to build than you might imagine. Plus, they'd be looking at getting a developer to do it, and any developer that would be qualified to do the job is probably going to charge $100/hour or more. And, the proxy will need a server of some kind to live on. At that rate, they might as well get a second system.
- jonknee 14y agoOr spend a couple hundred bucks and buy a new computer to run the new software...
- raverbashing 14y agoOr understand the URLs the page accesses, and make something similar for older browsers (if it's probably just a post with a badge number it's simple, if there is a login step it may be more difficult) Having said that I have to say I have absolutely no experience reverse engineering protocols used by clock systems and that I never did a Linux version of a Windows only system.
- cynwoody 14y agoAny idea what a $150,000 bandsaw can do to a man? My brother's a lawyer. He just dropped about 20 times that amount on a penthouse in downtown Chicago. He doesn't yet have a boat, although Lake Michigan beckons. Maybe when he buys his boat, he can christen it the Horrible Kludge!