Re: Mac OS 9 and Mozilla 1.6

On 03/15/2004 5:22 AM, in article 1gamqvl.gyo7jhrbc5z4N%[email protected],
"Hylton Boothroyd" <[email protected]> wrote:Hylton BoothroydHylton
Boothroyd03/15/2004 5:22 AM

>>> I have not been able to establish whether or not it is possible to
>>> run Mozilla 1.6 as the browser with Mac OS 9.2.1. Is it possible?

Thanks to everyone who has responded to the query.

Richard Peterson  
 
>> No.
>> The newest version which you can use is Mozilla 1.3.b
>> It will be in nightlies and will be back about Dec 2002.
>> 
>> Or you can get the latest version of the Trunk build for 1.3.
>> about Dec 2002.
> 
> There was an unofficial but carefully crafted version of 1.3.1 in July
> 2003.  Thereafter, because of continually evolving tools used with
> current operating systems, no-one has had the tools to prepare pre OS-X
> versions (for these purposes, OS 9 is no longer counted as current).
> 
> I had my copy of the unofficial 1.3.1 from
> 
> www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/wamcom/20030723/wamcom-131-macos9-20030723.sit
> 
> I also had the read-me direct from
> 
> http://wamcom.org/20030721/README-and-MD5.asc
> 
> It includes
> 
>> WaMCom means "Web and Mail Communicator"
>> It is a modified version of Mozilla.
>> One could say WaMCom consists of
>>   - 95% official Mozilla milestone
>>   - 4% carefully selected fixes,
>>        official Mozilla development
>>   - 1% other changes the maintainer(s)
>>        want to include
> 
> I find it useful for tackling stuff from ill-disciplined MS-based
> web-page editors when both iCab 2.9.7 and Internet Explorer 5.1.7 are
> defeated.  As a cross-platform application, inter-operability for
> Mozilla was given a lot of attention.