Subj : Re: MS-DOS & Win 3.11 in VirtualBox
To   : Jagossel
From : Sebastian Raase
Date : Sun Jun 09 2019 16:37:05

Hi,

 Ja> Man... Netscape 4: there's a wave a nostalgia waiting for me there, if I
 Ja> can get to it. I remember using Netscape back in the Internet days, but
 Ja> with Windows 95.

The last version to support Windows 3.1 seems to have been Netscape 4.08.
Although there is Internet Explorer 5.0 (including Outlook Express), which is
surprisingly capable still. Better have 16 MB of memory, though.

 Ja> I suspect many sites won't work in Netscape 4 now, but I have to wonder
 Ja> if archive.org would work, and just dig up some old sites.

Netscape tends to constantly spew out very important JavaScript error
messages which prevent actual browsing. Without JS and CSS, some pages
actually work.

Keep in mind that there is no PNG support in either browser, only JPG and GIF
work. And large images may crash the browsers because of memory shortage.

Regards,
Sebastian

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