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  • Netscape Composer in 2024

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 19 01:12:55 2024
    From the «fun for fun's sake» department:
    Feed: OSnews
    Title: I used Netscape Composer in 2024
    Author: Thom Holwerda
    Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:26:46 -0500
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/138335/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024/


    Netscape Composer was my first introduction to web development. As a kid, I created my first web pages using it. Those pages never made it online, but I proudly carried them around on a floppy disk to show them off on family members’ and friends’ computers. This is likely how I got the understanding that websites are just made of files. Using Netscape Composer also taught me basic web vocabulary, such as “page” and “hyperlink”.

    Of course, the web landscape has evolved immensely since then. I was curious
    to try out that dated software again and see what its limitations were, and what the code it produces looks like from a 2024 perspective. The first thing
    I needed was a goal. I decided to try and reproduce the home page of my personal website as closely as the application allowed it. That seemed like a sensible aim as my website has a rather minimalistic design, with very little that should be completely out of reach for an antiquated tool.
    ↫ Pier-Luc Brault[1]

    What a fun exercise.

    Links:
    [1]: https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/ (link)

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Sat Jan 20 10:23:05 2024
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/138335/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024/
    I needed was a goal. I decided to try and reproduce the home page of my personal website as closely as the application allowed it. That seemed like a sensible aim as my website has a rather minimalistic design, with very little that should be completely out of reach for an antiquated tool.
    ? Pier-Luc Brault[1]
    [1]: https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/ (link)

    Interestingly what he ends up with is a page that looks about the
    same in all browsers as his real page looks to me in Dillo, except
    the photo doesn't load there (probably due to that border, which
    I think ought to be done in the image itself). With CSS enabled the
    link unlining is removed, which he couldn't achieve in Netscape
    Composer, but I don't like that anyway - some sites indicate links
    with very minor colour shades so that without the underline you
    don't notice them at all.

    Whatever produces his real homepage makes a real mess in the HTML,
    even putting in a few empty comments for some reason. That page's
    HTML is also ten times the size of the page generated by Netscape
    Composer. So in my opinion I think he's found a better tool for
    the job, aside from the HTML errors perhaps (Dillo does actually
    report "zero detected HTML errors" on his real homepage, which is
    pretty rare, although not always accurate).

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