Tihiy Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 I did a quick review of 3.0a7 code and was shocked with Gecko developers' laziness:In fact, nothing prevented them to make absolutely 98 compatible version: they even have own GetGlyphIndices wrapper, there still a hell lot 98-compatibility code, and SetWorldTransform() is used only for scaling.It does not seems hard to make 9x-friendly version, i think it is harder to understand their creepy build system
rainyd Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 2. Assuming official support for it drops in 2009 (?) there's still at least nearly two years of using it left.I don't know where you get that date from. Firefox 3 will be released by the end of this year or beginning of 2008.Mozilla supports the previous version for six months only.
Analada Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 2. Assuming official support for it drops in 2009 (?) there's still at least nearly two years of using it left.I don't know where you get that date from. Firefox 3 will be released by the end of this year or beginning of 2008.Mozilla supports the previous version for six months only.Just had an official reply on the FF support newsgroup; looks like official support will end "sometime" in 2008 :-(
rainyd Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 I did a quick review of 3.0a7 code and was shocked with Gecko developers' laziness:In fact, nothing prevented them to make absolutely 98 compatible version: they even have own GetGlyphIndices wrapper, there still a hell lot 98-compatibility code, and SetWorldTransform() is used only for scaling.It does not seems hard to make 9x-friendly version, i think it is harder to understand their creepy build system Tihiy, they simply don't want to make Win9x compatible version because users base of those systems is relatively small.But for me as the user of Firefox it's more interesting that such talented programmer like you thinks it could possible (not only theoretically but also practically).
gpatrick Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 (edited) I did a quick review of 3.0a7 code and was shocked with Gecko developers' laziness:In fact, nothing prevented them to make absolutely 98 compatible version: they even have own GetGlyphIndices wrapper, there still a hell lot 98-compatibility code, and SetWorldTransform() is used only for scaling.It does not seems hard to make 9x-friendly version, i think it is harder to understand their creepy build system Tihiy, they simply don't want to make Win9x compatible version because users base of those systems is relatively small.But for me as the user of Firefox it's more interesting that such talented programmer like you thinks it could possible (not only theoretically but also practically). I just read 58% still use 98se. Of course not all use Firefox.One thing, I wish people would not use is User Agent Switcher unless absolutely necessary. Edited August 29, 2007 by gpatrick
BenoitRen Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Eh, they're just anti-Win9x fanboys. They complain about code not being easy to read, etc. Since Microsoft ended support for Win98 and WinME a year ago, they thought the time was ripe to remove the support.
Max_04 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 For me K-meleon is a good alternative to Firefox concerning win9x support.
BenoitRen Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 K-Meleon is also based on Gecko. It'll stop working just the same with Gecko 1.9 on Win9x.
Max_04 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 K-Meleon is also based on Gecko. It'll stop working just the same with Gecko 1.9 on Win9x.If remains previous version of Gecko 1.9 between downloads could be great.On their little forum there is a certain number of people using win9x.
gpatrick Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 K-Meleon is also based on Gecko. It'll stop working just the same with Gecko 1.9 on Win9x.If remains previous version of Gecko 1.9 between downloads could be great.On their little forum there is a certain number of people using win9x.Or you could still use Firefox 2.0.0.?
erpdude8 Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Gran Paradiso (aka. Firefox 3) is still not in beta phase yet but the alpha 8 release is now available here:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a8/releasenotes/
erpdude8 Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 firefox 3.0 beta 1 isn't quite ready yet. it looks like the Digg.com web site leaked out the info too soon as noted in this Mozilla Developer article here:http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index...ou-digg-us-but/
erpdude8 Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 K-Meleon is also based on Gecko. It'll stop working just the same with Gecko 1.9 on Win9x.If remains previous version of Gecko 1.9 between downloads could be great.On their little forum there is a certain number of people using win9x.Or you could still use Firefox 2.0.0.?You can only use Firefox 2.0.0.x under Win98/ME/NT4, gpatrick. FF 2.0x doesn't run under Win95 as it crashes under that OS. Win95 users may want to try out the latest FF 1.5.x nightly build here since no more official FF 1.5 releases are being produced.
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