SeaMonkey 2.53.1

Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by smhenderson on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:33AM (#22443949)

Always glad to see interest in SeaMonkey spread! I am writing this from an instance installed on Slackware. I use it as my daily driver at work, switching to Firefox occasionally when I need to sync with things I do on other machines.

I don't really use it often but I love that it still comes with Composer for WYSIWYG html. It's been a while but when I used it a lot about 5-7 years ago it wrote really clean, standard compliant html which made it great for quickly prototyping look and feel before diving into writing any code for new pages/sites.

Having used the stock Slackware version, which is usually just a bit behind, I'm excited to see what "our biggest release in a few years and incorporates many changes and fixes from the underlying platform code" looks like!

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Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by wott on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:53PM (#22446273)

> I don't really use it often but I love that it still comes with Composer for WYSIWYG html.

I tried it for the first time a few weeks ago (I never do web/HTML stuff). Seamonkey Composer crashed when I tried inserting a <video> element.

> Having used the stock Slackware version, which is usually just a bit behind, I'm excited to see what "our biggest release in a few years and incorporates many changes and fixes from the underlying platform code" looks like!

According to the release notes (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.1/) it is mainly features removal and breakage :-/ The least one can cay is that they are not chatty about the positive changes and features those underlying changes may have brought.

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Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by smhenderson on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:14PM (#22446430)

Yeah, I went and read some stuff on Wikipedia about it after posting. Apparently Composer is considered unsupported now and only gets occasional updates because it's used as the underlying html editor in Mail.

And yes, I was mildly disappointed when I downloaded and ran this as I saw no real visual difference or changes to the UI and preferences.

So I guess Composer is not much of an option for "real" work these days. Still cool to see an alternative browser out there that's at least mostly capable of handling the "modern" web...

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