About support for Windows XP and Internet Explorer, and possible leftover code
Samuel Therrien <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:57:11 +0000
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I've been wondering, what's the state, intent, or policy on support for old=
er OSes? I haven't seen it be mentioned (for example on the readme), yet st=
ill see a handle of areas of code referencing support for older OSes (XP, V=
ista, 7, 8.1, CE, ...), but also commits and PRs dropping support for them =
(at least building with 8.1 SDKs is dropped).
I'd assume to be "whatever still has a non-EOL CPython version that can be =
installed", but maybe not?
On a technical level, I'm also wondering if winxpgui and winxptheme actuall=
y serve any purpose anymore?
*
winxpgui seems to be some patched-up win32gui for XP?
*
I'm not sure what winxptheme is exactly. I'm not able to do much with it. I=
guess "the Windows XP 'theme' API" is some old Windows stuff that never qu=
ite went away in the background.
As for Internet Explorer, technically there's a mode in Edge to allow some =
sites to run pages in "IE mode" (that thing really won't die, will it?), bu=
t that's still through the Edge application.
The iebutton and ietoolbar demos technically do install an addon that I can=
see and enable in "Internet Settings", but idk if they can really do anyth=
ing (and as such, if the demos are still valid).
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I've been wondering, what's the state, intent, or policy on support for old=
er OSes? I haven't seen it be mentioned (for example on the readme), yet st=
ill see a handle of areas of code referencing support for older OSes (XP, V=
ista, 7, 8.1, CE, ...), but also
commits and PRs dropping support for them (at least building with 8.1 SDKs=
is dropped).<br>
<br>
I'd assume to be "whatever still has a non-EOL CPython version that ca=
n be installed", but maybe not?<br>
<br>
On a technical level, I'm also wondering if winxpgui and winxptheme actuall=
y serve any purpose anymore?</div>
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leType":2}" style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; =
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: "- ";">
<div style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;=
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
winxpgui seems to be some patched-up win32gui for XP?</div>
</li><li style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1=
2pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); list-style-type: "- ";">
<div style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;=
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
I'm not sure what winxptheme is exactly. I'm not able to do much with it. I=
guess "the Windows XP 'theme' API" is some old Windows stuff tha=
t never quite went away in the background.</div>
</li></ul>
<div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, san=
s-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
As for Internet Explorer, technically there's a mode in Edge to allow some =
sites to run pages in "IE mode" (that thing really won't die, wil=
l it?), but that's still through the Edge application.<br>
The iebutton and ietoolbar demos technically do install an addon that I can=
see and enable in "Internet Settings", but idk if they can reall=
y do anything (and as such, if the demos are still valid).</div>
</body>
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