Winternight-Classic development

[ClassicNick]

This topic is specifically to discuss development of Winternight-Classic (which is an upcoming fork of the Firefox 3.0 codebase, but with support for the deprecated "Windows" GFX toolkit, Visual C++ 6.0, and Windows NT4/9x support included). The purpose of Winternight-Classic is to have a fork of Firefox that is "lightweight", but still supports semi-modern web technologies, and also still supporting Windows NT4/9x and Visual C++ 6.0.

[roytam1]

I do hope if it can work in NT 3.51, while the missing ETO_GLYPH_INDEX in old NT gives me headache.

[ClassicNick]

Update: I managed to do a modified Firefox 3.0b4, and Firefox 3.0b5 build, but the most notable problem with the builds is the absence of EnsureDeviceContext() in nsDocShell.cpp which is responsible for setting the font size for the menu bar to ~128 pixels. Also, most of the text in the context menus have font sizes ~1-2 pixels in size, which is too small to read, and at the moment, I'm unsure of how to remedy that problem.

My Firefox 3.0b4 Visual C++ 6.0 mod:

My Firefox 3.0b5 Visual C++ 6.0 mod:

 

My last successful build of Firefox 3.0 was 3.0a4, so I think I want to revert more of the code in suspicious directories (layout/* ?)  to what existed in Firefox 3.0a4. @roytam1 I assume you know about comparing changes between files using diff file readers. Can you recommend some diff file viewers that are compatible with Windows 2000 and/or XP (specifically one with support for viewing multiple files)?

[roytam1]

On 3/31/2023 at 3:23 PM, ClassicNick said:

Update: I managed to do a modified Firefox 3.0b4, and Firefox 3.0b5 build, but the most notable problem with the builds is the absence of EnsureDeviceContext() in nsDocShell.cpp which is responsible for setting the font size for the menu bar to ~128 pixels. Also, most of the text in the context menus have font sizes ~1-2 pixels in size, which is too small to read, and at the moment, I'm unsure of how to remedy that problem.

My Firefox 3.0b4 Visual C++ 6.0 mod:

My Firefox 3.0b5 Visual C++ 6.0 mod:

 

My last successful build of Firefox 3.0 was 3.0a4, so I think I want to revert more of the code in suspicious directories (layout/* ?)  to what existed in Firefox 3.0a4. @roytam1 I assume you know about comparing changes between files using diff file readers. Can you recommend some diff file viewers that are compatible with Windows 2000 and/or XP (specifically one with support for viewing multiple files)?

WinMerge

 

and by the way there is way too much changes between every firefox3 alpha/beta versions, it is better to check CVS changes for details: https://github.com/roytam1/mozilla-cvs-history-subtree

Edited May 29 by roytam1

[schwups]

You can give Notepad++ extension Compare a try, too. https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/files/

Last Notepad++ for XP is 7.9.2. Yes, I also like and use WinMerge.