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Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

Jake — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:49:25 -0000

Ha, the good old Corporate Repository; I thought that was still around; doesn't WebIV source from there?

I also had an InterOffice launch t-shirt, and an Oracle 8 one too, which I still have somewhere. I remember supporting 16-bit Office on Win 95, so much fun.

You've given me an idea :)

Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

Scotty — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:33 -0000

Now you need to bring back the Corporate Repository, the NC (huge t-shirt crowd at OOW for this one back in the day, and Oracle Office and Interoffice :)

Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

Jake — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:16:40 -0000

It's way faster because it skips over stuff like CSS and images. So, for reading content, it's awesome, but the broken images kind of get in the way.

You can try it out if you like :)

Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

Jake — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:15:19 -0000

Wow, weird. Thanks for the tip. Damn that's a very complete abstract on the problem.

Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

ontarioemperor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:55:15 -0000

Wow. And I thought that I was going down memory lane when I surf on my cell phone (which uses a browser equivalent to Internet Explorer 4). It just goes to show you that when a developer writes an application, he/she has no way how the application will work (or won't work) a mere ten years later.

Just out of curiosity, does Oracle PowerBrowser 1.5 run faster (albeit in limited form) than today's browsers? Or are there too many variables that affect browser speed?

Re: Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser

Chris Heller — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:34:21 -0000

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