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BenoitRen

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  1. In windows 95 there was only 1 backup of the registry - once you booted to the desktop if was overwritten. That means if u had a corrupt registry but could boot do the desktop you were screwed.

    Since when is an extra back-up copy known as a big improvement? Instead of fixing the registry, they provided multiple fail-safes, and this is one of them.

    Add to that Dllhell, memory limitations, and u got problems.

    Because those aren't problems in Windows 98, right?

    One of the biggest was IE.

    Which had nothing to do with Windows 95 as a product, but had everything to do with IE, and Microsoft shoehorning it into the system.

  2. Both Java and JavaScript are languages that use their own garbage collection. But they are not related.

    By the way, I didn't know Opera required the Java run-time. Does it really require it, or does it just ship with it?

    • Ghostfox is actually Ghostzilla, an abandoned Windows web browser that used Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
    • SlimBrowser is a shell for IE.
    • FreeBrowser doesn't seem to be a web browser, but either an add-on for older web browsers, or a computer application to assist Free's media center.
    • I can't find any relevant information on Ace Explorer.
    • Cayman Browser is a shell for IE.
    • GreenBrowser is a shell for IE.
    • OffByOne is a real web browser that uses its own HTML 3.2 rendering engine. We already know about it. :)
    • Acco doesn't exist. You probably mean Acoo Browser. It is a shell for IE.
    • Deepnet Explorer is a shell for IE.
    • GoSurf is a shell for IE.
    • I can't find relevant information on Towey Websurfer.
    • Mozilla is the Mozilla suite before it got renamed to SeaMonkey.
    • I can't find relevant information on My Websurf 4 net Browser.
    • Surfie looks like another shell for IE, based on the requirement of IE3 listed on its former website.

    I'm not going to look up the rest. They're probably all IE shells as well.

  3. I would argue that while DOM2 support is important, CSS3 and HTML5 are less so, as they're still in draft, and not recommendations yet.

    These tests only test for specific things, though. Web browsers should focus more on completely supporting existing web standards (which is mostly what Gecko does, which is why they're not in a hurry to pass Acid tests). There's no web browser out there currently that has 100% support for HTML 4.01, CSS1 and CSS2.

  4. That won't work, as the provided code (that isn't even a script) doesn't depend on the sent user agent string. It uses IE conditional comments, which are interpreted by IE itself. In this case, IE will only parse the code if its version is less than 7.

    You'd either need to disable IE's parsing of conditional comments, or make itself believe it is a higher version.

  5. In my experience, with those missing DLL errors, you can just Google the DLL file and it'll come up. From there it is as easy as dropping the file into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.

    This is never a good idea if it is for Win9x, as the DLL files that come up are for Windows XP. Not to mention they might be old (but still Windows XP) versions.

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