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ShinobiKenobi
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on: May 03, 2024, 22:54
Javascript (ECMAscript) has been around since Netscape 2.0. The idea behind javascript was that it would enhance user experience. It can be enabled or disabled on a site-by-site basis. Because Netscape 2 and higher is designed and intended to use javascript, what's wrong with using it on sites that are targeted for '90s computers? I remember how cool it was to stumble upon a site that had cool javascript scripts. So since our hobby is old computers, why leave out that portion of it? I'm not talking about putting javascript on this site, since the goal here is to make it as efficient as possible for old Macs. I'm talking about the idea of just leaving javascript disabled altogether. I'd personally like to encourage people to include JavaScript 1.3 or earlier on their personal sites, which if you remember, helped proliferate the web into the good old fashioned internet that we knew and loved in the 1990s. I'm doing just that with my website. I just need time to finish it. But like with the idea that old computers are still useful, so too can websites targeted for old web browsers (please, for the love of God, not I.E.) still be useful. So why not go get another free personal website like you did back then, and put some cool JavaScript snippets on it?  Since it can be hard to find material on old JavaScript, since it's changed over the years, and most documentation is about modern JavaScript, here's a resource to learn OLD JavaScript (version 1.1) that works well with old Netscape browsers: http://speed.eik.bme.hu/help/html/Teach_Yourself_Javascript_1.1_in_a_week/ A couple free personal website hosts: http://macintosh.garden/ Everybody thinks of GeoCities for a free personal website, but another popular free web host was Angelfire, which actually NEVER went away! I created several free websites back in the '90s with them. https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/ (crypto ancienne or modern browser needed) *** You know what would really be cool? If you created a website using Netscape LiveWire. It was a competitor to CGI pages back in the later '90s. Instead of client-side JavaScript, LifeWire used server-side script to dynamically generate the HTML to be sent to the browser. I plan to try getting a Netscape server going sometime. More info can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/ (crypto ancienne or modern browser needed) The documentation for this kind of stuff begins with Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0 on that page. Just do a text search on that page for Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0 and it'll take you to it. |
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Last Edit: May 03, 2024, 23:28 by ShinobiKenobi
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Bolkonskij
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Reply #1 on: May 04, 2024, 13:30
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It's slow, it's implementation was only supported to varying degrees across browsers, so you couldn't be sure it would work on all. Some browsers required workarounds etc. Add to it the limited capabilities. Personally, I don't see much reason in using it. Other than doing it for the sake of doing it; you can do so much with the PHP + HTML combo these days ... but hey, that shouldn't hold you back to create some fancy retro compatible websites!! :-)
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