Subj : Re: BBS change
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sat Jul 02 2022 01:37:18

Hi Dale,

 DS> I might mention that neither Microsoft Edge or Chrome allow Java.  What
 DS> I am now using for a site that needs Java is called Pale Moon.

JavaScript is not Java.  They share a similar name but are two totally different things.  Java is a standalone programming language and JavaScript is a server-side scripting language that the modern Web relies heavily on still though JS is aged a bit.  Chrome and Edge, which share nearly 95% of the same underpinnings but a different UI/UX, both work just fine with my BBS' Web client.  I have used Chrome since it came out and continue to use it heavily.

fTelnet itself uses HTML 5 to do 99% of its work so it will run in any modern Web browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Pale Moon, Vivaldi, Brave...it's all working well.

Fun fact: Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave Web browsers are all based on the same open-source Web browser: Chromium.  

Fun fact #2: Pale Moon is a rewritten fork of an older version of Firefox.  I introduced UDD to it a good while back.

These days, Web browsers are (sadly) so homogeneous that there's very little difference between one and the other.

When I need to find something fast, I use Links2, a text-based Web browser that does have an available graphical mode I can use when needed.

Fun fact #3: except for using fTelnet, my entire outpostbbs.net website was written by me by hand.

--Sean

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