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[quote=guenter]
[quote="douglas sherriff"]

Downloading new versions became mildly hazardous, lose bookmarks etc,

besides win 98 support was becoming close to being set aside.

It is odd, I have 3 machines running win 98, or mint, and 2 that run XP or Ubuntu. Which ones do I run by preference?

What is my browser of preference?

You guess.

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FYI,  [b][u]this is odious[/u][/b], perhaps execrable.
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1.) A bug about hazards & loosing bookmarks is not known to me and OT here.

2.) K-Meleon project has never been about creating a HTML engine or a compiler that is specifically supporting Win 98. So IMHO Win98 support is not set aside.

Let me elaborate a little. :) K-Meleon is about a browser shell for the Mozilla [b]G[/b]ecko [b]R[/b]endering [b]E[/b]ngine. The aim is to embed the GRE into the native Windows API via [b]M[/b]icrosoft [b]F[/b]oundation [b]C[/b]lass. MFCembed was originally a free Visual Studio 6 C++ handout by Microsoft to embed IE's HTML rendering engine into Windows applications that need HTML rendering. MFCembed code was latter used and adapted by Mozilla Corp to embed their own GRE into a prototype Windows application called MFCembed.exe. That was the example on how to embed their HTML renderer into a Windows application. It was also a test harness whether this was possible. Mozilla Corps's MFCembed.exe was used by the K-Meleon projects founder. Christophe Thibault, a specialist in lean skinable light weight GUI development, created a skinable MFCembed.exe. His project names often started with k-. :D

During the next 10 years this project evolved into the IMHO most flexible and light wight browser shell ever.

The Mozilla Corp's support for their MFCembed code has been canceled recently. And before that it had been half heartened at best for many years and versions. The K-Meleon developers had to bite the bullet each time they had to adapt K-Meleon's code to a new GRE. It often took a year or two to do it. But this time it is not clear whether it can be done for GRE 1.9.2.x, 2.0... Plus the C++ developer most experienced with adapting it, who has done this since 2005, has no time and new c++ coders are not in sight.

The compilers that support Win98 do not compile a HTML engine that supports Win98. The main reason for this is simple. The new HTML versions require features that Win98 does not have. So Win 98 does not support out of the box the features needed to run K-Meleon 1.6eta's GRE 1.9.1.x nor K-Meleon 1.7alpha's GRE 1.9.2.x. Nor does Win 98 support native K-Meleon features like Unicode support.

KernelEx is the project that adds Win 98 support for features that are needed by modern free HTML rendering engines such as Mozilla Gecko and Google Webkit.

A compiler project that targets Win98 specifically and adds new features to it is not known to me.:s

For Win98 it is sufficient to add the needed features and camouflage as a newer system. The later because this is needed by the runtimes that can execute the modern code. The runtime's error prevention excludes Win98 because it does not know to check for features. Thus K-Meleon.org should not invest any extra work to work around Win98's current limitations. Even if this was possible. Which is IMHO not the case.

3.) Spam. This forum was flooded with automated spam until it took several man hours a day to remove. Have You ever tried to delete spam when new posts come in faster than You can delete? So if a word/string is persistently used in spam messages the word/string is blocked. If a string that is needed by a poster who does not know how to circumvene the block, he/she can contact a moderator. The moderator will counsel on how 2 or maybe remove the banned string from the list.

The passage about JavaScript is IMHO not correct. It is done AFAIK with a word list and a server based scripting language.

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At PokePeek. Thanks for the info on how to proceed without extending Win98's capabilities with Kernel Ex. [url=http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?1,115782]There is also a thread with CSS fixes for some sites[/url].
Maybe cross post the info there?

And thx for taking the trouble to format.

Since You point to the limitations of the forum. One way to work around format troubles in normal posts where the user did not find a way around them - press quote answer and it will show the original format of the code.

You can just suggest that the users do that to retrieve Your code and leave it as is. I am lazy and prefer this instead of editing the code.[/quote]

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