Windows-Installation (was Re: [thelist] Playing with MIME type (was: Downloading .jpg & .pdf files))
deke
web at master.gen.in.us
Wed May 23 06:21:46 CDT 2001
On 23 May 2001, at 0:04, aardvark posted a message which said:
> > BTW: <TIP typ="WebTV name="Jakob Doelling">WebTV is IE5 as WebTV.net
> > is a daughter company of Mc$oft</tip>- I did looked it up in my
> > personal server logs. Opera seems also to make use of the IE engine.
> erm, methinks you're confused on this one...
> WebTV is a different animal than IE... *completely* different... the
> core browser was written before MS bought them out... as such,
> you can go to WebTV's developer section
> (http://developer.webtv.net/) and read up on it... after all, there's no
> way WebTV could run the IE5.x bloatware engine...
The developer.webtv.net site needs updating; most of it hasn't
changed since the Build 2.6 browser came out in February.
The newest build of the WebTV browser (2.6) claims to be
MSIE/4. The Jellyscript tries to be compatible with MSIE/4's
jscript; prior versions of the WebTV browser tried to mimic
javascript.
Whether it *is* MSIE/4 or not is a matter of semantics. MSIE/4
was different on the Win32 platform than the Mac platform, and
it is still different on the Windows CE platform. I suppose if MS
calls it MSIE, then it's MSIE. The new Classic browser doesn't
understand all the tags that the Plus does - IFRAME being one
obvious example - and the developer.webtv.net site says that
the Plus has CSS1 while the Classic doesn't, but the Classic
in fact *does* have some CSS1 capabilities.
Incidently, a number of people are still using Build 2.4 or Build
2.5.5. Those running the original two models - Magnavox MAT960
and Sony INT-W100 - of WebTV *cannot* upgrade to 2.6; there
simply isn't the hardware to support it.
deke
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