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Was just curious if I had any copies of Netscape "buried" in my old archives -- found copies of v2, v4.7, and v7 🙂

 

Not going to try them on Windows 10 -- I'm sure they won't work.

'Nor am I going to try a REALLY ancient utility I remembered as I was wading through the archives -- UniDOS … a CP/M emulator than runs under MSDOS.    I do recall that this works fine on XP … and a few years ago I confirmed it also works on an XP virtual machine -- so I COULD (if I was so inclined) actually run CP/M on my nice new Core i7 Windows 10 machine under an XP VM 😄

 

… then I could run my old Beta v0.70 of WordStar (circa 1979 when I was a Beta tester for MicroPro)

 

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2 hours ago, Squid said:

Just an Update here:

 

I figured that maybe, just maybe NN was out of date, so I checked for updates and I am running the latest version of it, so there has to be something wrong elsewhere...

😀

I rather doubt you're running ANY version of it 😉

 

There is, however, a difference between no support for IE11 and no support for Netscape.

 

Netscape actually preceded the first version of Internet Explorer (1994 vs 1995).    Although Navigator did gain some market share in the late 1990's, it "fizzled" rather rapidly in the early 2000's and has not had any updates or support for well over a decade.

 

The story is quite different for IE, which evolved through 11 versions, the latest of which is still supported by Microsoft and will be until April 14, 2020 for mainstream support and Oct 14 2025 for extended support.  [These are the Windows 10 lifecycle dates; and Microsoft has clearly stated that "... IE 11 will be supported for the life of Windows 10"]

 

I don't really care if it works with UnRAID or not … I simply noted that as of 6.6.3 it does not, but it DID work just fine with all previous versions of the GUI, so this was something that "broke" with that update.   Trivial to resolve by just using another browser -- unless, as bonienl suggested above, the user is in a corporation which requires IE11 as a corporate policy.

 

 

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On ‎10‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 2:42 PM, bonienl said:

Pretty sure biggest part of that number are corporate users, and still stuck on IE11 due to company policy.

If that's the case, then these companies are being excluded from using UnRAID with the latest version.

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Agree -- a simple note that makes it clear it's not supported is all that's needed.   Lack of support for the latest HTML version is ample justification -- my point above was that a small market share isn't a good reason … IE has more market share than Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Brave.

 

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57 minutes ago, bonienl said:

Unraid 6.6 uses more HTML5 coding, which is not supported by IE11.

That explains why it doesn't work -- but it really necessary to break compatibility with IE (since all previous versions worked fine with it)

 

57 minutes ago, bonienl said:

Estimated IE11 browser share is 3% and declining.

I suppose there are other surveys that show this, but the netmarketshare data for the latest month shows IE at 9.94% … ahead of every other browser except Chrome.

 

 

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While IE11 is indeed effectively dead, but it IS still included with Win10 and there are a lot of folks who still use it … and the simple fact is the GUI worked just fine with it until this release.    Agree it's just an "Annoyance" that it doesn't work -- but clearly it could.