![]() ![]() He also never thought he’d see the words “very advanced” used when referring to Internet Explorer 5 in 2019. So I was certain that I’d have a working copy of the original Windows 3.11 with networking capabilities on hand.Īll I needed was for him to install me a copy of Internet Explorer 3. Kheng Meng had done this back in 2016 for the Hackware meetup, and that’s where I met him properly for the first time. I can literally feel the disdain from functional programming aficionados everywhere. Personally, I find it fascinating that a single codebase can give you different results in different browsers. Note that there is no desire to make the website look the same in every browser, because that’s missing the point. ![]() Regardless of end result, I figured it’d be a relatively amusing talk to do at Talk.CSS #39, and the only shot I had of getting a non-web developer, hardware guy like Kheng Meng to come to the CSS meetup. To be fair, “any“ is a pretty tall order, and so is “decent”, so I put out the disclaimer that this experiment would either end up being spectacular, or fail spectacularly. The point of this experiment was to build a website on a single codebase that still looks decent on any browser. I don’t actually use any JScript or Javascript in this experiment, but maybe a future iteration will, though I’m not sure if it’ll be quite as fun for me. Of course, the term “supports“ is a fairly subjective term as I would soon learn. This was also when JScript (Microsoft’s implementation of Javascript) was first supported. There were still portions of Spyglass code in Internet Explorer at this point. It was also a major upgrade from IE2, which was essentially built on the Spyglass Mosaic source code. IE3 is notable for being the first commercial browser that supported Cascading Stylesheets (CSS). This was pretty much the era of the first browser wars. Internet Explorer 3 was released on Augand shipped with Windows 95 OSR 2. Knowing that Kheng Meng was fully capable of setting up a working version of Windows 3.1, complete with networking capabilities and whatever applicable software I wanted, I asked him to set me up with an original version of Internet Explorer 3. That changed when I had another one of my many hare-brained schemes. Being a hardware man and not really a web developer, I’ve never had good reason to get Kheng Meng to come for Talk.CSS. We had worked together before at the inaugural Super Silly Hackathon back in 2017 and found out that we made a pretty good team. So it was inevitable that I would get on real well with Kheng Meng, retro computing enthusiast and co-organiser of the Hackware meetup. I wrote about this before, on how the first computer I remember was a 486 in my living room and how I spent hours playing computer games running on MS-DOS and Windows 3.1. Perhaps you have inferred that I really do love CSS. Some of you might know that I run the CSS meetup, Talk.CSS in Singapore together with my best mate, Wei. ![]()
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