Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web
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A coworker sent me this link. Of course, I immediately thought of @blakeyrat and his Mac Classic fetish.
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/
Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.
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But can it run Discourse?
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No.
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The non-JS version, maybe.
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Well, Crysis is less resource heavy...
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But can it run Discourse?
I just tried to load this thread on my Mac SE/30 using Netscape 2.02.
Here’s what happened:
Filed under: Aaand another computer bites the dust thanks to Discourse, maybe I should open a bug report
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Fuck
mp4
support in modern browsers. Seriously. Why doesn't it Just Work™
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Worked for me with Chrome41/Win8.1... Are you watching through the eyes of a flaming vulpine?
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Fuck
mp4
support in modern browsers. Seriously. Why doesn't it Just Work™
Probably because Open Source + H.264 = Big-Ass War About Using Ogg Vorbis Or Some Other Shit Instead
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I was about to say something but they fixed it in FF now too.
Off to yell at some Norwegians, bbl.
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Sounds like a bit of an Opera you're having there...
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WEBM seems to be the FSF-preferred video format for the web ...
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I was gonna say that too…
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Sounds like a bit of an Opera you're having there...
I'd use Otter but Discourse is broken in it. Need to check what's up with that with the devs.
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Wait.... Dischorse complains if you're using IE8 but at least attempts to work on Netscape 2?!
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INB4 links?
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Maybe they're specifically checking for IE8... Anyone tried with IE6?
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IE5:
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Wasn't there a topic about people trying to get their oldest computer to connect to TDWTF and then brag about it?
Filed Under: Has that topic been imported, yet? My Discourse-Fu is weak as usual
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Wait.... Dischorse complains if you're using IE8 but at least attempts to work on Netscape 2?!
I have disabled JavaScript support. Not that it matters much, because Netscape 2 doesn’t support most of today’s JavaScript (for instance, it doesn’t support the
typeof
operator) so the browser detection code would not work. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be able to display the “your browser is outdated” banner sincedocument.getElementById
(and its Netscape-specific predecessor,document.layers
) isn’t implemented either.(There may be some server-side browser detection too, but it probably doesn’t do anything if it doesn’t recognize the browser — that’s probably a wise choice given the number of Linux-specific FOSS browsers with various user-agents)