68kMLA Classic Interface

[wthww]

Hello MLAers,

I've been working on making a version of the MLA available for browsing on our favorite vintage macs. The interface can be found here:

http://classic.68kmla.org/index.html

Please give this a shot and let me know what you think! I would consider this in alpha as of now.

Styling is limited to make this look/work right on the oldest macs. If you have trouble browsing this from a modern machine, you'll need to clear your browser history since we updated our HSTS config to make this possible.

Known issues:

• Widgets/graphics are missing (I need help sourcing some icons)
• Pagination controls aren't yet in the template but work if you add a pageNum= parm to the URL.
• The HTML extracted from XenForo isn't perfect and will need a filter to make it more compatible with HTML 3.2.
• Images and embeds aren't handled right now, so danger Will Robinson! Certain 68k and PPC browsers won't like this very much on a per-thread basis.
• There's no error handling for forums that are permission restricted.

Special thanks to:

@joshc for giving my inspiration with MacHut.

And these awesome folks from the MLA IRC for being my guineapigs and letting me bounce this off of them in no particular order:

@zigzagjoe
@Hollie
@finkmac
@Scott Squires
@cheesestraws
@treellama
@jessenator
@Tashtari
@aperezbios

//wthww

 

[nathall]

Oh man, this should be cool! I’ll give it a shot in the next few days on an SE w/ MacWeb.

 

[volvo242gt]

I'll have to fire up on of my older machines and see how it works.

 

[Boctor]

Is Netscape 3.01 too picky for this? It seems to download the "node" pages fine but won't actually display them. Internet Explorer 3.01a handles everything just fine. Tested both of them on a real IIci and an emulated Quadra 800, to be sure.

 

[LaPorta]

This is a real nice, welcome addition. Will give it a go with Classilla on my PT Pro this evening. Thank you!

 

[wthww]

MacWeb

Let me know how this goes -- I'm not sure MacWeb supports tables. Should be interesting to see!

Netscape 3.01 too picky for this?

I'm not sure -- it may be (or it could be that it can't fail gracefully!) What machine was this on?

Will give it a go with Classilla on my PT Pro this evening. Thank you!

Looking forward to a report!


I'll continue to add some features to this. All feedback is welcome

//wthww