So, realistically speaking it’s possible, though I guess is it worth the time and effort at this stage, though I do much want to do it.
No, it's not realistic. It's technically possible, but it's not remotely realistic. You want to bolt on a newer rendering engine, that you know nothing about, onto an old web browser, one you also know almost nothing about.
Ok, here is another idea - say I wanted to go to Starbucks with my PB G4 titanium abs browse the internet - is there a way to set up proxy on my iPhone 7, so it can allow the old browser (LWK), access those sites it can’t on its own ?
Unless someone has ported one of these fairly obscure single purpose proxies over? No, no there is not.
While there are many Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that can be downloaded and installed on your computer for free, creating web browsers yourself gives you more control over how you...
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And if I understand this right, all that's doing is creating a wrapper for Internet Explorer, or possibly a version of Microsoft Edge. I don't actually know if they've manage to fully replace IE yet for that purpose.
I know you want this all to be easy, but it's not. Most of the "new" web browsers that come into existence are just forks or ports of existing ones. Even that isn't easy. OS 9 currently lacks a lot of what would be needed to just fork port Pale Moon over, and that's based on Firefox 24 ESR.
I've been picking away at this for awhile now. It works, mostly, and it's far from 100% complete, but it does browse the web. Mainly i have a few UI / Menu bar issues to look in to, and initial profile creation seems to barf, so i just created a new profile in 10.6 and copied it over. For the...
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It still got a port, if a somewhat feature incomplete one, and just to Leopard. But even this is something of a minor miracle. This is what it looks like when it's not easy. And given the hard drive failure that this project was on, it's not to be. But could someone else approach it and try again? Sure, but there's no reason to expect they'd have an easier time getting it to work on Leopard than wicknix did.
As you go further back in time with the versions of the Mac OS, you miss more and more of the tools required to port over existing code. You'd have to make them yourself. For example, that link you shared, if you wanted to do that for Mac OS 9 software, at the very least, you'd need Visual Studio. From what I can see, Visual Studio for Mac isn't older than 2019. Do you think that can build Classic Mac OS programs?
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