On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that > all web browsers (and OSes and cpus) are created equal. Most aren't > supported well, if at all. Even the developers who know how just don't > care enough. > > If you aren't using IE, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, then you're > probably out of luck with anything more than the bare basics.
Untrue. What you need is a current HTML and JavaScript engines. In IE that's Trident. In Firefox, it's Gecko with IonMonkey. In Safari, it's Webkit and V8. In Chrome and now Opera, it's Blink and V8. There are an assortment of browsers based on Qt and Webkit available. One I'm using is Qupzilla, open source and available for Windows, Linux, and OS/X (including a portable Windows version.) See http://www.qupzilla.com/ Another is QtWeb, which is lighter weight but has issues I'm not sure will get fixed. See http://qtweb.net/ Qupzilla has the virtue of being actively maintained. Flash isn't going away on the desktop, and is still maintained. I just had Firefox Nightly complain I was running an older and possibly vulnerable version of the plugin and updated. The principal use case for Flash is streaming video implemented as Flash objects, and there's still a batch of that around. As HTML5 becomes prevalent, that will go away (and making it go away and dispensing with the need to the Flash plugin is a major reason why people are pushing HTML5.) ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
