Filed under: Internet, Web services, Browser Tips
Looking at today's internet using yesterday's browser
Well, wonder no more. You don't have to install Mosaic, Netscape 1.0 or Internet Explorer 2.0. Just pop on over to the Deja Vu Browser Emulator, choose your poison, and watch as all the things that make today's web beautiful are stripped away. The virtual browser will pop up inside of a browser window, giving you the surreal experience of surfing the web using the granddaddies of Firefox or Internet Explorer from within IE7 or Firefox 2.0.
You haven't lived until you've tried to watch YouTube videos using HotJava. And don't forget to enter http:// in the address bar. Older browsers didn't recognize web pages without the full address.
We supposed you could use the emulator to see how your web site looks on old browsers (or even mobile phone browsers), but the odds of anyone actually using IE 2.0 to visit your page are pretty slim.
[Thanks Markus!]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
