Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP
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So it's a thin client terminal type of thing. I was really hoping it was done by a ridiculous number of polyfills!
I don’t think anyone who lived through supporting pre-IE8 browsers would willingly subject themselves again to such an exercise in frustration.
If i get suspicious Mail or something similar i use my old BlackBerry Z10 to open it first.
Afaik there has never been a know Malware for the device. The whole system itself was pretty security oriented from the beginning. Sure it uses webkit for the browser but a browser exploit is usually just the first entry. Even if the Malware gets root i suspect it won't be able to run anything useful on the QNX Kernel.
Odd numbered versions are the best with fixes and not a lot of new stuff being tried out--3.51 put the polish on 3.5.
(though I miss Windows 2000)
Same here. Windows 2000 was - in my opinion - Windows at its peak. Everything after it has been disappointment incarnate; the ever-expanding weight of further Windows versions on CPU/RAM/disk usage did not (and still does not) adequately justify the new features.
ReactOS is probably the closest thing we have to that ideal Windows experience now. Still holding out hope that it'll reach version 1.0 and truly be a proper drop-in Windows replacement.
This is a new version using GoLang/ChromeDP. Python/Webkit being now deprecated
...seeing the rise of the Chrome monopoly still saddens me.
I use it on my network mainly for adblocking and other page filtering, and the "HTTPS upgrade" it does is more like a side-benefit.
On the other hand, a TLS 1.2 connection coming from a client purporting to be some old version of IE on Windows tends to cause some sites to reject the request, I guess purely because of how unusual that looks.
This definitely could have been a valuable enterprise product in the early-to-mid 2010s.
OK, so a lot is going on here, if I am understanding this correctly:
1) IE 1.5 is displaying and updating an image. 2) Image is from a screenshot of a current version of Chrome, running on another machine 3) Image gives the impression that you're running Chrome locally. 4) Mouse clicks and keystrokes are transferred from IE to that remote version of Chrome, and Chrome screens are transferred back (as Images) in response.
Net effect is that you've got new Chrome functionality inside of old Windows 3.51... Nice!
(Observation: It might make sense to bypass IE 1.5 altogether, and just write a simple VNC-like program that shows images from remote and sends clicks and keystrokes, but this would be great for NT 3.51 if the user didn't want to install any other programs...)
But... all in all, brilliant!!!
I would feel the same.