Is there any hope for Macs?

[Mirth]

It seems like doghead is able to browse under OS9 as he says in this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=78035

Also, I have some issues with ENWorld using Safari & 10.2.8 that I posted in that same thread. Will those of you using 10.3 see if you are having the same probs?

 

[Desdichado]

The answer to your main question, in the thread title, is no.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Mozilla is no longer supported for OS 9. They have, in fact, removed the installers for earlier versions from their website.

Once again, OS 10 makes my life more difficult.

If Microsoft ever released an operating system that made it impractical, if not impossible to run all the software from an earlier version of Windows, people would scream bloody murder. But Apple did it and it's perfectly fine with most people.

EDIT: We no longer have an eye-rolling smilie?

 

[Mirth]

Ask doghead. Maybe he can send you the installer. Just trying to offer the help you seem to want. Take it or leave it, I guess.

 

[Contrabassoon]

If you're stuck on OS 9, try the WaMCom browser, which is a slightly modified build of Mozilla 1.3.
http://wamcom.org/

 

[Steve Jung]

I'm using Safari on OSX 10.2.8. So far, so good.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

If Microsoft ever released an operating system that made it impractical, if not impossible to run all the software from an earlier version of Windows, people would scream bloody murder. But Apple did it and it's perfectly fine with most people.

You mean like, say, Windows NT?

I'd be perfectly happy if they broke all the old DOS and Win9x crap if it meant they got rid of all the legacy code to support it, too. Maybe then developers would start writing XP apps that didn't require full admin privileges to run.

Don't know how it is on the Mac (there is a current version), but I use Opera on Windows and Linux and love it to death. There's only a very few sites that I have to revert back to IE, and it's because of poor coding, not the browser.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

You mean like, say, Windows NT?

To be fair, NT wasn't intended for home use, and therefore didn't require every single windows user to buy an entire new suite of software.

Don't know how it is on the Mac (there is a current version), but I use Opera on Windows and Linux and love it to death. There's only a very few sites that I have to revert back to IE, and it's because of poor coding, not the browser.

Agreed, IE is actually the worst browser I use. Unfortunate realities of the internet culture force me to use it more than I'd like.

In any case, Netscape is talking to the boards again, so yesterday's problem is nominally solved. Maybe the reindexing was causing problems?

 

[buzz]

If Microsoft ever released an operating system that made it impractical, if not impossible to run all the software from an earlier version of Windows, people would scream bloody murder. But Apple did it and it's perfectly fine with most people.

Uh, Classic?

We had about 16 years of the previous OS. Now we're settling into a new OS (one that, at it's core, has been around for 30 years or so) that will probably not have to be thrown out anytime soon. I appreciate the fact that now I don't need to reboot unless I want to.

 

[Creamsteak]

Windows Longhorn project, which I've only heard about a few times, was supposed to be built from the ground up (not compatable with the older stuff at all). Then they decided not to go that way. I was kinda anxious to see a completely revised Windows. Linux is good, but I'd like to have something as stable while being as universal in the home.