[Info-vax] VMS Moasic 4.2

[chris]

On 12/23/21 00:52, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/22/2021 7:47 PM, chris wrote:
>> On 12/23/21 00:13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/22/2021 7:02 PM, chris wrote:
>>>> On 12/22/21 23:50, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>> In article<9ac4059f59.mickenx at armx6>, Michael Grunditz
>>>>>> SSL works , I can browse wikipedia. with VSI OpenSSL 1.1.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *very happy*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Much more usable than mozilla on my XP900.
>>>>>
>>>>> In that case, it does sound interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>> What doesn't work, compared to a modern web browser on a typical
>>>>> system
>>>>> (Windows, Apple, Linux)?
>>>>
>>>> Anything to do with later versions of java, which most sites seem
>>>> dependent on now. Did try early Mosaic on an old Sun system some
>>>> years ago and barely worked with anything, though Google tried it's
>>>> best...
>>>
>>> It does not support any version of Java and neither do any
>>> modern browser (Java applets are totally dead).
>>>
>>> It does not support any version of JavaScript either - and
>>> that is used by almost all web sites today.
>>
>> That was a global thing about java, which includes script.
>
> Java and JavaScript are two completely different languages.
>
> Java support in browsers and JavaScript support in browsers
> are totally independent.
>
> "Java including JavaScript" is similar to "Fortran including Cobol".
>
>> Pretty dead in the water really, unless the page is basic
>> html...
>
> Mosaic? Yes.
>
> Arne
>
>

Thanks for the tutorial, but quite aware of all that and it's considered
bad manners to lecture people at all, even more so when unaware of their
background. Mosaic was the first browser ever used here, followed by 
Netscape, then Firefox up to the present.

Fortran including Cobol indeed :-)...

Chris