[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <14WQ0SLFBSyl at wvnvms>, cook at wvnvms.wvnet.edu (George Cook)
writes: 

> I've been wanting for over two years to get the next release packaged
> up.  The main holdups are revising the doc and creating all the
> pre-built executables.

When the release is ready, presumably it will contain pre-built 
executables, as you mention.  But will there be a procedure to build it 
from scratch as well?

> I can make Alpha 8.2 and VAX 7.3 images of Mosaic V4.3 available
> to anyone who contacts me, but I'm not going to make a public release
> until the distribution kit is at least the same quality as previous
> releases.  The images are built against OpenSSL, so they will run on
> any system regardless of what, if any, SSL is installed.  The list 
> of the V4.3 changes is attached.

I'm sure many appreciate the effort you are putting into this (by
yourself?).  I have an older version of Mosaic installed (VAX and
ALPHA).  It doesn't eat up the resources like CSWB does.  Unfortunately,
many web pages these days rely on JavaScript, Flash, Java etc.  How much 
support for these bells and whistles is there in Mosaic?