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Comment by GoblinSlayer

5 days ago

>browsers aren't really a self funding product

You can use Firefox 3, programs don't rot.

Not really true...

In this specific case I'd be willing to bet that Firefox 3 probably doesn't handle current HTTPS/TLS standards and might not be able to browser the modern Internet at all (let alone display modern webpages, HTML5 video players, single-page web apps, WebRTC live calls, etc.)

  • Firefox 3.5 was actually the first browser to support HTML5 video and audio. In general for old browsers TLS is the main issue. Most websites that don't rely on JavaScript or newer CSS still render well enough or "fail gracefully" but are still readable.

  • >HTTPS/TLS

    Put it behind privoxy. All those SPA blogs exist solely due to google. No google - no SPA.

    • I'm curious about the logic there.

      - Why would Google (which famously didn't index Javascript well, and liked clear super-optimized URLs) have contributed to the existence of single-page applications (which used to have terrible drawbacks for SEO)? Where's the incentive?

      - And what is a SPA blog? That seems like such a far-fetched idea.