yawetaG wrote:I don't think you could play the videos even if they were to load. Modern web-video requires a fast connection and system becaus […]
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bfcastello wrote:root42 wrote:Honestly, the modern browser experience is so powerful that it is basically impossible to correctly render any modern site on a vintage machine with only a handful of megabytes of RAM. What would be more useful would be to do it Opera style: render on some server, then send the image. Or simply use VNC...
Problem with the image is that you cannot use the forms nor view the videos. WRP (Web Rendering Proxy) script does the same thing, but cannot fill the forms or play videos.
I don't mind the videos really but the forms...
I don't think you could play the videos even if they were to load. Modern web-video requires a fast connection and system because of the high resolutions. On top of that, old systems often lack the codecs and hardware support to decode and play the videos...
For the forms, it really depends which technology was used to implement them. CGI forms will work, but anything newer may either show up very broken, or fail at submission.
FWIW, you will even encounter those issues on fairly recent systems...
Yeah, I know. You're right.
Time to review what exactly I want to do with the browsers here. For emails, I am already set up with Outlook Express (but I recall myself using other client, probably Eudora, when I was a kid.)
Let me think... back in early 90's, what exactly I was doing on the Internet, as a kid?
I only had access to Internet when I had W95 in an Acer Extensa 710T notebook. And it was quite impressive for that time. Apart of using mIRC, I used to visit numerous websites, (a big number of them were for the Grand Prix 2 game downloads) but for now, I think that I would be better using the WRP script to visit only news pages. Back then (early 90's ) we didn't had Youtube (they would come only 15 years later), Facebook (2002?), Google (98'), and many other modern websites. I think Yahoo! was around, as well as Amazon. We could compile a list of websites that existed back then, and check for whether it's worth to visit them on older browsers or not.
Using a sslstrip proxy, Vogons forums renders very slow and quite badly on IE5 if not using WRP. (WRP renders an image of the forum, but I cannot post).
For example, for CNN's low bandwidth version, I need to put an exception for the proxy on IE (if using WRP) to stop it and allow the original page, for a faster loading of this page in particular. But none of the exceptions are working - dunno why, I might be declaring them wrong on IE.
To sum up:
- Internet (using an script I found that simulates an ISP for Trumpet Winsock to connect);
- Emails with Outlook (using stunnel script on rPI3);
- Web browser: Only news pages (using Web Rendering Proxy script on rPI3);
- mIRC (works out of the box);
- develop low-bandwidth and stripped-down websites (using the rPI3's web server, accessing through FTP) and test them on IE5;
This would probably be an experience reasonably close to what I had years ago. I accept suggestions (for other types of websites to visit)!
EDIT: I actually managed to fix the proxy exception list. Turns out that an iptables rule I made for SSLStrip was “stopping the show”. I removed it, rebooted everything and everything is working again. Using WRP to visit the pages, with exceptions added for google (search) and CNN (low-bandwidth version).
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JOBS, Steve.
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