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jonhohle 56 minutes ago [-]
We had about 10-15 years or so where the web wasn’t so complex and fast moving that a browser needed constant updates for things to work. Now browsers are more complex that entire operating systems and anything older than a few years just won’t work and publishers think that’s ok. I remember as late as 2008 verifying websites in Lynx (or elinks or links2) to ensure screen readers and low end devices would have a reasonable experience.
Now anything older than a few years is garbage that can be abandoned and websites have no problem using GBs of RAM. What a wasteful, fickle industry software is.
lxgr 12 minutes ago [-]
Arguably not really a web browser, but possibly the first (and pre-RSS!) "read it later" app: Plucker for Palm OS was amazing.
You could enqueue websites to download and compress from a PC during each HotSync operation and then read them offline on the PDA.
TeaVMFan 2 hours ago [-]
I remember using Dillo on a Compaq iPaq with Linux installed. No Dillo screen shots, but plenty of information about apps for Linux on the iPaq 3765 here:
Now anything older than a few years is garbage that can be abandoned and websites have no problem using GBs of RAM. What a wasteful, fickle industry software is.
You could enqueue websites to download and compress from a PC during each HotSync operation and then read them offline on the PDA.
https://www.frequal.com/ipaq/index.html