Re:The final official release of Classilla
by tyingq on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:14PM
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I suspect they mean the level of effort to get a working web browser, on an older OS, that supports current websites. Of course, it's not just security (TLS, etc) that makes it hard. Browsers are very complicated these days.
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Re:The final official release of Classilla
by PeterisP on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:17PM
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Well, that's the choice of these current websites, which wouldn't also want to support an alternative protocol if one (like the parent post suggests) would get made.
If you need a protocol for document discovery and retrieval like the old internet and have the cooperation of the sites, then you can simply use basic https without javascript, all the things that Lynx browser can support, all the infrastructure is still there. But you can't force the websites to support that if their operators don't share these goals and values.
"Well, that's the choice of these current websites"
Sometimes. For example, there was a pretty organized effort to make plain http websites seem insecure, even if they were just informational sites.