Construct a Cross-Platform Testing Station in Mac OS – A Listing Aside

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Everybody talks about testing, however there’s valuable little details about what particularly to do. I haven’t seen any nuts–and–bolts descriptions of how one can arrange a cross-browser, cross-platform testing station.

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On this article, I describe how one can arrange a G3 (or sooner) Macintosh to allow you to:

  • check your net pages in a number of Windows95 browsers out of your Macintosh
  • check your net pages in a number of Macintosh browsers with out confounding your private browser’s preferences with these of your testing browsers
  • bundle these components onto a set of CDs in order that in the event that they change into corrupted, they are often rapidly and simply restored

Clearly there are some {hardware} necessities concerned (beginning with a G3 or sooner Macintosh). There are additionally software program necessities (most significantly, a duplicate of RealPC to place a digital Intel machine into your Mac). All of the {hardware} and software program necessities are described within the subsequent part.

The final define of subjects we cowl after that’s:

Earlier than you begin this mission, please perceive that each one of this takes some time. Relying totally on the pace of your Web connection, it’d even take a number of days to get all the pieces downloaded and put in. The excellent news is that you just’ll solely need to do it as soon as, and with these helpful directions, you may be fairly certain of getting it proper the primary time.

The pc I’m utilizing on this article is a Macintosh 7100/66 with a 250MB inside onerous drive and a inventory CD-ROM drive. It’s been upgraded with a Newer MAXPowr G3/250MHz PDS card, 136MB RAM, an exterior 4GB SCSI onerous drive, an exterior Yamaha 4x CD-RW unit, and an exterior International Village 56K modem. It has a 17” multisync monitor and is working MacOS 8.6.

You’ll want about 2GB of free disk house whereas the testing station is being arrange, and about half that later. You’ll additionally want two Macintosh volumes which you could set up MacOS on. These may be separate bodily gadgets (as they’re on this article), partitions on a single bodily gadget, and even learn/write detachable media. You’ll additionally want a CD burner with its software program and clean CDs, a monitor set to at the very least 1024 x 768, and a modem and Web connection.

Since we’ll be putting in Windows95, you’ll want a full set up of the Windows95 working system (on this article we’ll be putting in from a CD).

We’ll be working with RealPC 1.0.3 with RealPC improve 1.0.9 since that’s what I’ve accessible.

Necessities abstract:

  • G3 (or sooner) Macintosh
  • 96MB RAM
  • 2GB free onerous drive house
  • 200MB bootable quantity (separate from the one above)
  • CD-R/W unit with CD burning software program
  • a number of clean CDs
  • monitor that’s at the very least 1024 x 768
  • Web connection
  • RealPC 1.0.3 or larger + improve to 1.0.9
  • full set up of Windows95

SELECTING AND DOWNLOADING BROWSERS#section3

I picked these browsers by deciding on what seems to be the final launch (for Windows95 and MacOS) of every main model of Web Explorer and of Netscape’s choices, each beginning with model 3. I’ve added the variations of Lynx which are most up-to-date on the time of this writing (the truth is, those I’ve chosen are pre-release variations so you might wish to choose one thing rather less recent). I’ve additionally added Opera beginning with model 5 and, for the Mac solely, the newest launch of iCab. Lastly, I’ve included the Macintosh version of WebTV Viewer (model 2). All collectively, the testing station described right here contains 29 browsers, cut up about evenly throughout Windows95 and MacOS.

That’s plenty of browsers. Why so many? Effectively, you should use this station that can assist you design for older browsers or for the newer standards-compliant ones. Even for those who select the latter, you could be thinking about how your standards-compliant design degrades in a few of the older browsers, so you might discover them helpful to have round.

Since your wants could also be totally different from mine, you might want to ignore a few of these browsers and/or embody others. Maybe crucial omission is your complete world of Unix browsers. Though I haven’t tried it, it must be doable to make use of RealPC to put in a Unix or Linux digital PC in your Macintosh if for some cause a PPC model isn’t what you want. In case you attempt it, please allow us to all learn about your expertise.

A HANDY CHART#section4

On this chart of browser supply tables, I record every browser, the title and measurement of its obtain file, and a reference URL for downloading it.

Clearly, the particular filename and file measurement will in all probability be totally different for those who’re downloading worldwide editions of the browsers (like, say, the French Netscape 4.78). The reference URLs vary from very particular to considerably basic the place extra basic appeared extra helpful. Please notice that these URLs are legitimate as I write this (January 2002) however by time I’m afraid most of them will cease functioning. That might not be a foul factor if it signifies that so many more moderen (and presumably standards-compliant) browsers have been launched that nobody needs or wants the older ones. To these of you studying this sooner or later, your greatest wager for finding older browsers could also be some form of archive just like the one accessible as we speak at evolt.org.

Earlier than downloading the browsers, you would possibly discover it handy to arrange a sequence of folders, beginning with one for MacOS browsers and one for Windows95 browsers. Right here’s the group scheme I exploit on this article (every merchandise listed here’s a folder):

  • mac browsers
    • icab

    • ie

    • lynx

    • netscape

      • 3.04
      • 4.08
      • 4.51
      • 4.61
      • 4.78
      • 6.1
      • 6.2

    • opera

    • webtv

  • win95 browsers

    • ie
      • 3.02
      • 4.01
      • 5.0
      • 5.5 service pack 2

    • lynx

    • netscape

      • 3.04
      • 4.08
      • 4.51
      • 4.61
      • 4.78
      • 6.1x
      • 6.2x

    • opera

Every browser obtain may be saved on to its respective folder.

Downloading these can take fairly a very long time, however hopefully the URLs and particular filenames I’ve supplied will at the very least scale back a few of the search time.

Though it’s not an official step in organising the testing station, after you’ve downloaded the browsers, you would possibly wish to burn them to a CD so that you just gained’t need to repeat the downloading for those who by accident delete any of them.

One final element: Due to the order we’ll be putting in issues on this article, there gained’t be a zipper utility accessible in Home windows once we set up Lynx, so develop the zipped Lynx 2.8.4 into its folder now.

SETUP FOR WINDOWS95 BROWSERS#section5

SETTING UP YOUR MAC FOR WINDOWS95#section6

Set your Mac to at the very least 1000’s of colours and 1024 x 768. Why not 256 colours? As a result of we’re organising Home windows for 256 colours. When Home windows takes over, the colour map utilized by your Mac might be modified and the non-Home windows a part of your display screen might change into painful to take a look at. Along with your Mac set to 1000’s of colours, this doesn’t occur. Why 1024 x 768? Our digital PC can have an 800 x 600 display screen. You may make this smaller (or bigger), however 800 x 600 is sort of frequent as I write this.

In your Mac, create a folder known as “drives.”.” You may title it no matter you want, however that is the title I’ll use all through this text. The “drives” folder might be the place we put all of the digital onerous drives we create for RealPC. The names of the drive information and folder will start with C, D, or E, equivalent to the C:, D:, and E: drives of DOS/Home windows.

Transfer the “mac browsers” folder into the “drives” folder, then within the “drives” folder, create one other known as “E shared.” Copy the “win95 browsers” folder into “E shared” in order that we’ll have the ability to entry the browser set up packages from inside Home windows.

RealPC 1.0.9 provides help for MacOS 9 and Windows98. If you wish to set up IE 6.0, you’ll have to put in Windows98 onto a RealPC digital onerous drive. On this article, we’ll arrange 4 digital onerous drives, however we gained’t arrange one with Windows98. However after you’ve arrange a testing station as described on this article, taking that further step shouldn’t be too tough.

INSTALLING REALPC#section7

Insert the “RealPC Set up CD” that got here together with your RealPC bundle and launch the installer. In my case, this put in RealPC 1.0.3. RealPC asks you to arrange a digital onerous drive. We’ll be deleting it, so the defaults are high-quality. Subsequent RealPC will ask you to personalize your copy of this system. Do this, then skip the following part of this text until you should replace your copy of RealPC.

UPDATING REALPC#section8

Since I had model 1.0.3 of RealPC, I needed to obtain the RealPC 1.0.9 updater. I added it to the RealPC folder. After deleting some issues, right here’s what we now have there:

  • HD Expander
  • RealPC Information
  • RealPC Exhausting Disk File C
  • RealPC Improve Disk
  • RealPC_Update109.sea
  • RealPC

Launch the RealPC updater. This may create the RealPC_Update109 folder throughout the RealPC folder. Delete “HD Expander” and “RealPC Improve Disk” from the RealPC folder, then copy “HD Expander” and “RealPC Improve Disk” from the RealPC_Update109 folder into the RealPC folder.

INSTALLING REALPC (CONTINUED)#section9

From the “Set up 3” folder on “RealPC Set up CD”, copy HDData to the RealPC folder. Rename “RealPC Improve Disk” to “D Win95” and transfer it to the “drives” folder. Delete all the pieces else from the RealPC folder (together with “RealPC Exhausting Disk File C”) in order that it comprises solely

  • RealPC Information
  • HD Expander
  • RealPC
  • HDData

Set RealPC’s reminiscence allocation to 60MB. You could possibly get by with much less, significantly working the early browsers, however for the later all-singing, all-dancing browsers, you’ll discover that extra RAM is useful. Actually, even with 60MB, for those who don’t have the endurance to attend and see what occurs after you launch Netscape 6.1, you’d swear this gecko was lifeless.

Launch RealPC. Since we deleted the digital onerous drive, RealPC provides us the chance to create a brand new one. Create it within the “drives” folder, allocating 200MB for it, and title it “C Win95 256 colours.” We’ll trim again the scale of the digital onerous drives later, however the browsers require extra disk house throughout set up.

Screenshots:  [019]  [020] Within the Setup thực đơn, regulate RealPC’s show and reminiscence settings. Warning: After this and till you’ve made a backup, don’t mess with the show setting or with Windows95’s Show management panel. Chances are you’ll find yourself with a completely corrupted coloration map in Home windows (and also you’ll need to repeat all of your installations). After you’ve accomplished all of your installations and burned all the pieces to CD, then go forward and experiment.

Restart the PC (not the Mac). RealPC will ask you the place “RealPC Improve Disk” is. Choose “D Win95.” Within the Setup thực đơn, choose RealPC Setup then set shared drive E: to the “E shared” folder within the “drives” folder.

And that’s it for the primary a part of the setup. Subsequent we’ll set up Windows95.

INSTALLING WINDOWS95#section10

Insert your Windows95 set up CD into the inner CD drive in your Mac. After it seems in your Mac desktop, on the DOS immediate within the RealPC window, kind

f:setup

If RealPC has bother discovering your CD and you’ve got multiple CD drive connected, attempt utilizing one other drive. If all else fails, attempt adjusting the settings in RealPC’s Setup thực đơn (see your RealPC handbook for hints).

Assuming that your CD was acknowledged, press the return key when Windows95 Setup pronounces that it’ll carry out a routine examine in your system. Assuming (once more) that it discovered no errors, press the “x” key to proceed.

Ultimately, a dialog field will seem. Press Command-M to activate the Home windows mouse, then click on Proceed.

After some time, the Windows95 Software program License Settlement will seem. Click on “Sure” for those who comply with it.

The Windows95 Setup Wizard will begin. Click on “Subsequent.” Settle for the default Windows95 location of C:WINDOWS then click on “Subsequent.” Choose Typical set up then click on “Subsequent.” Enter your Windows95 entry code then click on “Subsequent.”

Present the Setup Wizard with a reputation, then click on “Subsequent.” Within the Analyzing Your Laptop dialog, examine the checkbox then click on “Subsequent.” Within the Home windows Elements dialog, choose the primary radio button (“Set up the most typical elements”) then click on “Subsequent.” Within the Startup Disk dialog, choose “No, I are not looking for a startup disk”, then click on “Subsequent.” Within the Begin Copying Information dialog, click on “Subsequent.”

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After Home windows has copied the information it wants, the Ending Setup dialog will seem. Click on “End.” Your PC (not your Mac) will reboot and RealPC will then ask you once more to find the “RealPC Replace Disk.” Choose “D Win95” within the “drives” folder. Home windows then will start its precise setup.

After a couple of minutes, Home windows will ask you to pick out your time zone within the Date/Time Properties management panel. Make an applicable choice then proceed by clicking “Shut.”

Home windows will subsequent ask you to arrange your printer. Begin by clicking “Subsequent” and click on “Subsequent” for every window till you’re prompted for the title of your printer. Sort it into the textbox then click on “Subsequent.” Lastly, choose the “No” radio button once you’re requested whether or not you’d wish to print a check web page then click on “End.”

Home windows will ask you to click on OK to restart your pc. Click on “OK.” Your PC will restart once more and Home windows will spend a couple of minutes configuring itself. Ultimately, a “Welcome to Windows95” dialog will seem. Click on Shut. Home windows will restart once more.

Log in to Home windows, however don’t set any passwords. I’ve a idea that if Home windows thinks I’m Invoice, it’s going to attempt further onerous to be good to me, in order that’s how I log in. Once more, a Welcome to Windows95 dialog will seem. Uncheck the “Present this Welcome display screen” checkbox within the backside left nook and click on “Shut.”

From the Home windows Begin thực đơn, within the backside left nook of the Home windows desktop, choose Shutdown.

Congratulations, Home windows 95 is put in in your digital PC and we’ve reached Milestone 1.

MILESTONE 1#section11

Burn a duplicate of your “D Win95” and “C Win95 256 colours” information onto a CD. Now, if something turns into corrupted in Home windows, you can begin once more at this level with out having to re-install Home windows: merely copy the “D Win95” and “C Win95 256 colours” information from the CD you simply burned to the “drives” folder in your onerous drive, changing the variations which are there.

PREPARING THE WINDOWS95 TEMPLATE#section12

Double-click the “C Win95 256 colours” icon to launch Home windows once more. Within the Home windows desktop, delete “On-line Providers” and “Set Up The Microsoft Community.”

Screenshot: [052] In “My Laptop/Realpc (C:)/Program Information”, delete “NetMeeting”, “On-line Providers”, “The Microsoft Community”, and “Home windows Messaging.”

In “My Laptop/Realpc (C:)/Home windows/Begin Thực đơn/Applications”, delete “Microsoft NetMeeting”, “On-line Providers”, “Web Mail”, and “Web Information.”

In “My Laptop/Realpc (C:)” choose File > New > Folder to create a brand new folder. Identify it “paperwork.”

Screenshot: [062] Within the “My Laptop” window, open your “E shared” drive then choose View > Choices.

Within the Choices dialog, choose the View panel, then uncheck the underside checkbox that claims “Conceal MS-DOS file extensions.” Click on “OK.” Drag the file “clean.html” from “E shared” to the “paperwork” folder. Since we simply unchecked the “Conceal MS-DOS file extensions” checkbox, the “.html” extension must be seen. Shut all of the Home windows home windows.

Screenshot: [065] Now, empty the recycle bin. Do that by clicking on it, then when it’s chosen, press Command-R (that is the mouse-right-button equal in RealPC). Choose “Empty recycle bin” from the pop-up thực đơn.

Learn the way a lot free house you have got on “C Win95 256 colours” (your digital C: drive) by double-clicking on the “My Laptop” icon on the Home windows desktop, then single-clicking on the “Realpc (C:)” icon within the “My Laptop” window. Press Command-R to see the pop-up thực đơn and click on Properties. Home windows will present you ways a lot of the onerous disk is used and the way a lot is free.

Screenshot: [066] Discover the numbers on the appropriate (74.9MB and 124MB). After we resize onerous disks later, these are the values we’ll want to find out how small we are able to make the onerous drives. I’ll come again to this later.

Click on “Cancel” then shut the “My Laptop” window, and shutdown the PC. We’ve now made it to Milestone 2.

MILESTONE 2#section13

Once more, burn the 2 onerous drive information (“D Win95” and “C Win95 256 colours”) to a CD (these ought to match in your first CD). The most recent model of the “C Win95 256 colours” file might be a form of template that we’ll copy a number of occasions and set up numerous browsers on.

So, make three copies of the “C Win95 256 colours” file and title them

  • C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01
  • C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0
  • C Win95 256 colours IE 5.5s2

Rename the unique to:

  • C Win95 256 colours others

Now, the “drives” folder ought to have six objects (the 4 simply talked about, “mac browsers”, and “E shared”, which itself comprises the 2 objects “clean.html” and the “win95 browsers” folder).

Since in Home windows every set up of Web Explorer replaces the earlier model, we’ll use a separate digital onerous drive for every model besides model 3.02 which was put in routinely with Windows95. We’ll depart 3.02 on the “C Win95 256 colours different” disk and set up the opposite, non-Microsoft browsers there with it. Web Explorer 4.01, 5.0, and 5.5s2 will go onto the three different onerous drives we ready above.

INSTALLING INTERNET EXPLORER#section14

Log onto your ISP together with your Mac. A number of the installations require a dwell connection, and for those who’re not logged in earlier than you launch RealPC, your pc might freeze.

Though a few of the particulars are totally different, right here’s a abstract of what we’ll do with every model of Web Explorer we set up:

  • Be sure to’re logged on to the Web.
  • Set up the browser.
  • Set choices (flip off caching and computerized updates, set our personal begin web page).
  • Resize the browser window.
  • Give up the browser, then restart it to verify the choice settings have been acknowledged and the browser remembers your most well-liked window measurement.
  • Setup shortcuts to the browser on the Home windows desktop and in C:WindowsStart MenuProgram FilesStartUp in order that it launches routinely.
  • Test how a lot of the house on the digital onerous disk is used then use shrink it with RealPC’s HD Expander.

INTERNET EXPLORER 4.01#section15

Launch RealPC by double-clicking the “C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01” icon within the “drives” folder.

Screenshot: [072] In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersie5.0ie4install.exe.” Double-click it. After it decompresses itself, the Setup dialog will seem. Click on “Subsequent.” When the license settlement seems, choose “I settle for the settlement” then click on “Subsequent.” Guarantee that “C:Program FilesInternet Explorer” seems within the Vacation spot Folder window, then click on “Subsequent.”

A short time later, IE Setup will let you know to disconnect. Don’t. Simply click on “OK.” Setup will then spend a couple of minutes configuring your system. You’ll then get a message that claims “Setup should restart your pc.” Click on “OK.” Your PC will restart.

Sit again for a couple of minutes as IE Setup initializes some issues. Quickly the Setup message window will go away and for some time solely a inexperienced desktop might be seen. Ultimately the desktop icons will seem with one other setup message, then an IE Welcome window and a channels window will seem. Shut each. You’ll be requested “Would you like the Channel Bar to be displayed subsequent time you restart your pc?” Click on “No” then restart your PC (not your Mac).

Uncheck the “Present this subsequent time” checkbox on the backside of the IE Welcome window then shut the window. Rename the IE alias on the desktop from “Web Explorer” to “Web Explorer 4.01.”

Screenshot: [084] In “My ComputerRealpc (C:)Program FilesInternet Explorer” make an alias of “Iexplore.exe.” To do that single-click “Iexplore.exe.” Whereas it’s highlighted, press Command-R to get the Home windows popup thực đơn. Within the popup thực đơn choose “Create Shortcut.” Drag this alias to “My ComputerRealpc (C:)WindowsStart MenuProgramsStartUp”, then shut all of the home windows and launch IE.

When it launches, IE will attempt to contact microsoft.com the place it’s going to encounter a script error. You can be requested “Do you wish to proceed working scripts on this web page?” Click on “No.” In IE’s handle bar kind C:documentsblank.html then press return.

Screenshot: [090] In IE’s View thực đơn, choose Web Choices, then within the Web Choices window, beneath “Residence Web page” within the Common tab, click on “Use Present.” Underneath “Short-term Web information”, click on “Settings.” Within the Settings window choose the highest radio button “Each go to to the web page” and drag the “Quantity of disk house to make use of” slider all the best way to the left then click on “OK.” Again on the authentic Web Choices window, click on “OK”, then stop IE.

Relaunch IE to examine that the startup web page is “clean.html” then stop IE once more.

Get the quantity of used house on the C: drive. On my machine, it exhibits that 108MB are used. So we’ll quickly resize this drive to slightly greater than that (to 110MB). Shut all of the home windows, then restart your PC to guarantee that IE launches routinely. Then stop IE and shutdown your PC.

Duplicate “C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01” in case something goes fallacious throughout resizing. Within the RealPC folder, launch “HD Expander.” Navigate to “C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01” then click on “Open.” Set the New Measurement to 110MB then click on “Shrink.” “HD Expander” will defragment the drive and replica the contents to a brand new, smaller file. When it finishes, stop “HD Expander.”

Launch Windows95 and IE 4.01 by double-clicking “C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01.” If all goes nicely, shutdown Home windows then delete “C Win95 256 colours IE 4.01 copy.”

That’s it! You’re executed putting in the primary browser.

INTERNET EXPLORER 5.0#section16

Be sure to’re linked to the Web earlier than you launch RealPC, then double-click “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0” within the “drive” folder.

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersie5.0ie5setup.exe.” Double-click it. Within the Home windows Replace window, choose the highest radio button (“I settle for the settlement”) then click on “Subsequent.”

After a number of moments, a window will seem asking which kind of set up to do. Choose the highest radio button “Set up Now – Typical set of elements”, then click on “Subsequent.” Within the Obtain Websites window choose no matter is suitable on your location then click on “Subsequent.” Go for one more cup o’ joe and are available again 19 megs later, when the obtain is full.

When the obtain is finished, a window saying “Restart Laptop” will seem. Whenever you click on “End” your PC will restart.

The Home windows Replace message will seem and Home windows will spend a couple of minutes performing updates, then personalizing settings for IE 5. When it’s executed, delete “Connect with the Web” and “Outlook Specific” from the Home windows desktop. From “My ComputerRealpc (C:)”, delete the “Home windows Replace Setup Information” folder. From “My ComputerRealpc (C:)Program Information”, delete the “Outlook Specific” folder.

Navigate to “My ComputerRealpc (C:)Program FilesInternet Explorer” and make an alias of “Iexplore.exe”, then drag it to the Home windows desktop. Shut the “Web Explorer” and “Program Information” home windows, then open “My ComputerRealpc (C:)WindowsStart MenuPrograms.” Drag the alias into the “StartUp” folder there.

Rename “My ComputerRealpc (C:)WindowsStart MenuProgramsInternet Explorer” to “Web Explorer 5.0.” Delete the “Outlook Specific” shortcut from there then shut all of the home windows.

On the Home windows desktop, rename “Web Explorer” to “Web Explorer 5.0” then launch IE. The Web Connection Wizard will begin up. Click on “Cancel”, then within the subsequent dialog, examine the checkbox (“Don’t present the Web Connection wizard sooner or later”), then click on “Sure.”

Screenshot: [115] After IE begins up, resize the browser window, then open “C:documentsblank.html.” From IE’s Instruments thực đơn choose Web Choices. Within the “Residence Web page” part of the “Common” tab click on “Use Present.” Within the “Short-term Web Information” part, click on “Settings”, then within the Settings window, choose the primary radio button “Each go to to the web page”, and slide the “Quantity of disk house to make use of” slider all the best way to the left. Click on “OK.” Within the “Superior” tab, uncheck “Robotically examine for Web Explorer updates”, “Disable script debugging”, and “Allow Set up On Demand”, then click on “OK.”

Give up IE, then restart Home windows to examine that IE hundreds up routinely and that your window place and begin web page have been remembered.

Give up IE once more then empty the “Recycle Bin.”

Test the quantity of disk house used. In my case, 121MB of the digital C: drive is full, so in only a minute we’ll resize it to 125MB. Shut all of the Home windows home windows, then shut down your PC. Duplicate “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0” in case something goes fallacious throughout resizing. Use “HD Expander” to resize the unique “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0” to 125MB.

Launch Windows95 and IE 5.0 by double-clicking “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0.” If all goes nicely, shutdown Home windows then delete “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.0 copy.”

Two down, one to go. Subsequent we’ll set up IE 5.5.

INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5#section17

Putting in IE 5.5 is virtually similar to putting in model 5.0. Aside from utilizing the IE 5.5 installer and “C Win95 256 colours IE 5.5s2”, and renaming the desktop icon with “5.5” as an alternative of “5.0”, the one distinction is that the digital C: drive is resized to 130MB as an alternative of 125MB.

When you’ve put in IE 5.5 that’s it for Web Explorer. However if you wish to add a digital onerous drive with IE 6, you’ll want to put in a duplicate of Windows98 there. We gained’t do this on this article, however don’t let that cease you!

INSTALLING THE OTHER BROWSERS#section18

First, we’ll need to develop our digital onerous drive “C Win95 256 colours others” to 500MB.

As at all times, be sure to’re linked to the Web earlier than you launch RealPC, then double-click “C Win95 256 colours others” within the “drive” folder.

In Home windows, navigate to “My ComputerRealpc (C:)Program Information” and beneath the File thực đơn, choose New > Folder. Identify the brand new folder “browsers.”

Throughout the “browsers” folder, create ten new folders named:

  • Lynx 2.8.4p5
  • Netscape 3.04
  • Netscape 4.08
  • Netscape 4.51
  • Netscape 4.61
  • Netscape 4.78
  • Netscape 6.1
  • Netscape 6.2
  • Opera 5.12
  • Opera 6.0

Create yet one more folder and title it “browsers.” Drag this folder onto the Home windows desktop then shut all of the home windows. This new “browsers” folder is the place we’ll preserve aliases to every browser we set up. You could possibly preserve these aliases in your Begin thực đơn for those who like, providing you with a barely cleaner desktop, however I like with the ability to see at a look (with out clicking the Begin thực đơn) what browsers are put in.

LYNX 2.8.4#section19

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browserslynx2.8.4.” Copy the contents of that folder into “Realpc (C:)Program FilesbrowsersLynx 2.8.4p5.”

Within the “Realpc (C:)Program FilesbrowsersLynx 2.8.4p5” folder, make an alias of “lynx.exe” and rename it “Lynx 2.8.4p5.” Drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

Screenshot: [126] Launch Lynx to verify it really works then stop by typing “q” within the Lynx window. Sort “y” when Lynx asks “Are you certain you wish to stop?”.

NETSCAPE 3.04#section20

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape3.04n32e304.exe.” Double-click it.

A dialog field will seem. Click on “Sure” to substantiate that you just wish to set up Navigator Model 3.04. Within the Welcome window that seems, click on “Subsequent.” Within the Select Vacation spot Location window, click on the “Browse” button and navigate to “My ComputerRealpc (C:)Program FilesbrowsersNetscape 3.04.” Click on “OK” within the Select Listing window, then click on “Subsequent” within the Select Vacation spot Location window.

After a number of moments, a Query window will seem asking if you need to hook up with Netscape to configure Navigator. Click on “No.” Within the subsequent Query dialog, click on “No” to keep away from studying the readme file. Lastly, when the “Setup is full” dialog seems, click on “OK.”

Within the Netscape License Settlement window, click on “Settle for.” Netscape will then launch. It might not have the ability to discover a bookmark file. If that occurs, a dialog field telling you so will seem. Click on “OK.”

Relocate and resize the browser window.

In Netscape’s Choices thực đơn, choose Common Preferences. Underneath the Look tab, within the Startup part, within the “Browser Begins With” textbox kind C:documentsblank.html then click on “OK.”

In Netscape’s Choices thực đơn, choose Community Preferences. Underneath the Cache tab, kind 0 (zero) into the Disk Cache textbox, and click on the “Each Time” radio button within the Confirm Paperwork merchandise. Click on “Clear Disk Cache Now.”

Verify that you just wish to clear the disk cache by clicking “OK”, then again within the Preferences window, click on “OK.”

Give up Netscape then re-launch it to verify it remembered your most well-liked window measurement and placement, and your begin web page. Give up Netscape once more.

Rename the “Netscape Navigator” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 3.04” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 4.08#section21

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape4.08n32e408.exe.” Double-click it.

Within the Welcome window that seems, click on “Subsequent.” When the Software program License Settlement window seems, click on “Sure.” Within the Setup Sort window, click on “Browse” then navigate to “C:Program FilesbrowsersNetscape 4.08.” Click on “OK” within the Select Listing window, then “Subsequent” within the Setup Sort window.

An Data dialog field mentioning the earlier installations of Navigator will seem. Click on “OK.” Within the Choose Program Folder window, click on “Subsequent.” Within the Begin Copying Information window, click on “Set up.”

After the set up, a dialog will seem asking if you wish to learn the readme file. Click on “No.” Click on “OK” within the “Setup is full” dialog.

Launch Netscape, then within the New Profile Window, click on “Subsequent.” Click on “Subsequent” twice extra (till you get to a window with three radio buttons). Choose the second radio button “Copy my current person information”, then click on “End.”

Screenshot: [151] Relocate and resize your browser window.

Underneath the Edit thực đơn, select Preferences. Within the Navigator part of the Preferences window, choose the “Residence web page” radio button beneath “Navigator begins with”, then click on “OK.” (The cache preferences must be retained from the Netscape 3.04 settings, however you may examine this if you want.)

Give up Netscape then re-launch it to verify it remembered your most well-liked window measurement and placement, and your begin web page. In my set up, the browser window is not going to keep fairly as tall as I would really like, however it’s going to do. Give up Netscape once more.

Rename the “Netscape Navigator” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 4.08” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 4.51#section22

Putting in Netscape 4.51 is similar to the putting in model 4.08. Begin by launching “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape4.51cc32e451.exe.” However after the Data dialog field mentioning the earlier installations of Navigator, a Netscape Desktop Choice Choices window will seem. Uncheck all three bins (“default browser”, “dwelling web page”, “search the Internet”) then click on “Subsequent.”

The set up then proceeds simply as Netscape 4.08 did besides that on the finish, after the “Setup is full” dialog field, you’re given the choice of restarting Home windows. Choose the highest radio button (“Sure, I wish to restart my pc now”) then click on “OK.”

After the restart, launch Netscape. Shut the Communicator floating palette then resize your browser window.

Underneath the Edit thực đơn, select Preferences.

Screenshot: [160] Broaden the Superior class within the Preferences window, then choose the SmartUpdate merchandise. Within the SmartUpdate part of the window, uncheck the “Allow SmartUpdate” checkbox, then click on “OK.” (The beginning web page and cache preferences must be retained from the Netscape 4.08 settings, however you may examine this if you want.)

Give up Netscape then re-launch it to verify it remembered your most well-liked window measurement and placement, and your begin web page. In Netscape 4.51, the browser window does keep in mind my most well-liked window measurement (in contrast to in 4.08; see above). Give up Netscape once more.

Rename the “Netscape Communicator” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 4.51” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 4.61#section23

Once more, this set up is similar to the final. Begin by launching “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape4.61cc32e461.exe.” Every part proceeds as above, besides that after the Begin Copying Information window, a message about an previous model of RealPlayer being uninstalled will seem. A more moderen one might be put in, then set up once more proceeds as above.

After restarting, launch Netscape. A discover referring to RealPlayer will seem however then be coated up by Netscape. We’ll see it later.

Netscape might be unable to search out dwelling.netscape.com and also you’ll get a message to that impact. Click on “OK” then stop Netscape. That discover about RealPlayer’s coloration preferences will now be seen. Click on “OK.”

Launch Netscape once more. This time it’s going to open with our “clean.html” file. All our different preferences must also be retained from our earlier installations of Netscape, however you may examine this for those who like. Give up Netscape once more.

Rename the “Netscape Communicator” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 4.61” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 4.78#section24

But once more, this set up is just like the final. Begin by launching “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape4.78cc32d478.exe.” After this, the one vital distinction with respect to the Netscape 4.61 set up is that the RealPlayer set up isn’t repeated, so nothing associated to that (together with the restart possibility) occurs on this set up.

As standard, you might want to launch Netscape to examine that our preferences have been carried over from earlier installations, and that our window location and measurement preferences have been remembered.

Rename the “Netscape Communicator” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 4.78” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 6.1#section25

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape6.1xN6SetupB.exe.” Double-click it.

Within the Netscape 6 (6.1) Setup – Welcome window that seems, click on “Subsequent.” When the Software program License Settlement window seems, click on “Settle for.” Within the Setup Sort window, click on “Browse” then navigate to “C:Program FilesbrowsersNetscape 6.1.” Click on “OK” within the “Choose a listing” window, then “Subsequent” within the Setup Sort window. (Depart the “Really helpful” setup radio button chosen.) Within the Begin Set up window, click on “Set up.” A number of home windows will then come and go.

Launch Netscape. After a very long time (on my machine), a Home windows Integration dialog will seem asking about making Netscape 6.1 the default utility to make use of for associated paperwork. Click on “No.” An Activation window will seem. Click on “Cancel.” Within the Verify dialog, click on “Cancel.”

Relocate and resize the browser window.

Screenshot: [174] Underneath the Edit thực đơn, choose Preferences. Within the Class part of the Preferences window, develop “Privateness and Safety” then choose the “Types” merchandise. Within the Types part of the window, uncheck the “Save kind knowledge” checkbox.

Within the Class part of the Preferences window, develop “Superior” then choose the “Software program Installati…” merchandise. Within the Software program Set up part of the window, uncheck the “Allow software program set up” checkbox. Click on “OK” then stop Netscape.

Launch Netscape once more. This time it ought to open with our “clean.html” file. Give up Netscape once more.

Rename the “Netscape 6” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Netscape 6.1” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

NETSCAPE 6.2#section26

This set up is just like the one for Netscape 6.1. Begin by launching “E sharedwin95 browsersnetscape6.2xN6SetupB.exe.” Proceed as above, however when the Fast Launch window seems, click on “Subsequent.” Then, within the Begin Set up window, click on “Set up.” After set up Netscape ought to launch routinely.

Underneath the Edit thực đơn, choose Preferences. Within the Class part of the Preferences window, develop “Superior” then choose the “Cache” merchandise. Sort a 0 (zero) within the Disk Cache textbox. Click on “OK” then stop Netscape.

Launch Netscape once more. This time it ought to open with our “clean.html” file. Give up Netscape once more then drag the “Netscape 6.2” icon from the Home windows desktop into the desktop “browsers” folder.

OPERA 5.12#section27

In Home windows, navigate to “E sharedwin95 browsersopera5.12ow32enen512.exe.” Double-click it.

Within the Opera 5 (Win32) Set up window, click on “Subsequent.” Within the Software program License Settlement window, click on “I Settle for.” Within the Choose Vacation spot Listing window, click on “Browse” then within the Choose Vacation spot Listing window navigate to “C:Program FilesbrowsersOpera 5.12.” Click on “OK.” A dialog field will seem asking you to substantiate that set up location. Click on “Sure.” Again within the Choose Vacation spot Listing window, click on “Subsequent.”

Within the Icon Creation window, click on the “Subsequent” button. (We’ll delete the icon from the Begin Thực đơn later together with a bunch of others, however we’ll use the desktop icon.)

Within the Choose Group window, click on “Subsequent.” Within the Able to Set up! window, click on “Subsequent” to start the set up.

After the set up, within the Set up Accomplished! window, click on “End.” Opera will launch.

Screenshot: [189] In Opera’s File thực đơn, choose Preferences. From the record on the left facet of the window, choose “Historical past and cache.” Within the “Disk cache” space on the appropriate facet of the window, kind 0 (zero) within the KB textbox, uncheck the primary three checkboxes (“Cache paperwork”, “Cache photographs”, “Cache different”) and examine the fourth (“Empty on exit”). Chances are you’ll as nicely click on the “Empty now” button too. Within the “Test modified” part within the backside half of the window, choose the “At all times” radio buttons beneath “Paperwork”, “Pictures”, and “Different.” Within the “RAM cache” part close to the center of the window, uncheck the “Allow computerized RAM cache” checkbox, after which uncheck the opposite checkboxes in that part as nicely (“Cache paperwork”, “Cache photographs”, “Cache rendered photographs”).

From the record on the left facet of the window, choose “Plugins.” Within the “JavaScript” part on the backside of the appropriate facet of the window, examine the “Report JavaScript errors” checkbox, then click on “OK.”

After a second, a warning dialog associated to electronic mail purchasers might seem. Click on “Sure” to proceed making use of the brand new preferences.

In Opera’s Navigation thực đơn, choose “Set dwelling web page.” Within the “International dwelling web page” textbox within the “Set dwelling web page” dialog, kind C:documentsblank.html then click on OK.

You could possibly relocate and resize the browser window, however in my expertise Opera will maximize its utility window the following time it begins up. Give up Opera.

After you relaunch Opera, a dialog field will seem asking whether or not Opera must be made the default browser. Test the “Don’t present this dialog once more” checkbox, then click on “No.” The “Tip of the day” dialog will seem. Uncheck the “Present suggestions at startup” checkbox on the backside of the dialog field, then click on “Shut.” Give up Opera once more.

Rename the “Opera 5” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Opera 5.12” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

OPERA 6.0#section28

The precise set up of Opera 6.0 is virtually similar to that of Opera 5.12. Begin by launching “E sharedwin95 browsersopera6.00 releaseow32enen600.exe.” Proceed as above till the set up is full and Opera launches.

A welcome dialog will provide you with the choice of deciding on “Home windows on desktop.” Click on that merchandise, then examine the “Don’t ask me once more” checkbox on the backside of the window. Click on “Begin.”

Screenshot: [200] On this model of Opera, your most well-liked location and measurement for the browser window might be remembered, so go forward and relocate and resize it.

Within the browser’s handle bar, kind C:documentsblank.html then press return. Opera will change the URL to file://localhost/c:/paperwork/clean.html. In Opera’s File thực đơn, choose Preferences. From the record on the left facet of the window, choose “Begin and exit.” Within the “Begin” space on the appropriate facet of the window, click on the “Use energetic” button.

Since Opera doesn’t import preferences from earlier variations of itself, we’ll need to set all of them once more for this model. From the record on the left facet of the Preferences window, choose “Multimedia.” Within the “JavaScript” part on the backside of the appropriate facet of the window, examine the “Report JavaScript errors” checkbox.

From the record on the left facet of the window, choose “Default browser.” Uncheck the “Test if Opera is default browser” checkbox on the backside of the window.

From the record on the left facet of the window, choose “Historical past and cache.” Within the “Disk cache” space on the appropriate facet of the window, kind 0 (zero) within the KB textbox, uncheck the primary three checkboxes (“Cache paperwork”, “Cache photographs”, “Cache different”) and examine the fourth (“Empty on exit”). Chances are you’ll as nicely click on the “Empty now” button too. Within the “Test modified” part within the backside half of the window, choose the “At all times” radio buttons beneath “Paperwork”, “Pictures”, and “Different.” Within the “RAM cache” part close to the center of the window, uncheck the “Allow computerized RAM cache” checkbox, after which uncheck the opposite checkboxes in that part (“Cache paperwork” and “Cache photographs”). Click on “OK” then stop Opera.

Re-launch Opera. The “Tip of the day” dialog will seem. Uncheck the “Present suggestions at startup” checkbox on the backside of the dialog field, then click on “Shut.” Give up Opera once more.

Rename the “Opera” icon on the Home windows desktop to “Opera 6.0” and drag it into the desktop “browsers” folder.

Within the Home windows desktop, choose the AOL 700 hours icon, the AOL Prompt Messenger icon, the RealPlayer Primary icon, and the Take5 icon. Drag all of them to the Recycle Bin.

Navigate to “My ComputerRealpc (C:)WindowsStart Thực đơn.” Choose the Free AOL icon, then press Command-R. Within the popup thực đơn, choose “Delete” then verify the deletion by clicking “Sure” within the affirmation dialog. Do the identical factor with the Netscape SmartUpdate icon.

Within the Begin Thực đơn folder open the Applications folder then delete all the pieces besides “Equipment”, “StartUp”, “MS-DOS Immediate”, and “Home windows Explorer.”

Empty the Recycle Bin.

Screenshot: [209] Open the desktop “browsers” folder and within the View thực đơn, choose Listing. Then resize and relocate the “browsers” window to simply above the Begin Thực đơn.

Test to see how a lot house is used on the digital onerous drive. In my case, 247MB is used, so in only a minute I’ll resize “C Win95 256 colours different” to 250MB.

Shutdown your PC, then duplicate the “C Win95 256 colours different” onerous drive file. After making a backup, resize it utilizing HD Expander. Launch it to verify it really works earlier than deleting the backup.

MILESTONE 3#section30

Lastly, burn the 4 digital onerous disks within the “drives” folder onto a CD. They need to all match onto one 700MB clean with none problem.

SETUP FOR MAC BROWSERS#section31

Establishing the Mac browsers is far simpler.

I needed to maintain my private searching preferences separate from my testing browsers: I choose a lean browser however I needed the check ones to have all their chrome and default preferences intact. To do this, I devoted my Mac’s previous inside 250MB onerous drive to testing. It has a full set up of MacOS 8.6 and a few utilities on it however little else. In case you don’t have a second bodily onerous drive, you would possibly contemplate creating a brand new partition on the onerous drive you do have, or utilizing a detachable bootable learn/write medium.

On the second quantity do a clear OS set up, then reboot from that quantity. Chances are you’ll discover it helpful to reset the desktop coloration to at least one very totally different from the one you utilize in your essential onerous drive (in my case, one is bluish, the opposite yellowish). Subsequent, set up and launch every Macintosh browser in sequence. As with the Windows95 browsers, flip off caching and computerized software program updates, activate JavaScript error reporting, and set the default open web page to a clean HTML doc.

Why not simply choose “begin with clean web page” when it’s accessible? Merely for this: by changing the “clean.html” file with an alias to no matter I’m engaged on (whereas retaining the “clean.html” filename), in some circumstances all I’ve to do to see how the web page seems to be is launch a browser and the web page hundreds up routinely. You could possibly do one thing comparable utilizing symbolic hyperlinks on a Unix net server and have the total net server performance accessible in case your pages are CGI intensive (or in any other case dynamic, like being generated with PHP or ASP).

Having put in the MacOS and set the preferences of all of your Mac browsers, you would possibly wish to burn the system folder with these preferences to a CD. That method you may simply restore all defaults and clear out undesirable extensions and choice information which will accumulate there. However once you do this, for those who embody the “mac browsers” folder that comprises all of the expanded browsers, you’ll have your essential Macintosh testing supplies all on one CD.

If, like me, your second quantity is fairly small, you might not have the ability to retailer the Macintosh browsers there. As an alternative, I preserve the Macintosh browsers on the 4GB onerous drive regardless that once I use them I’m booting from the smaller quantity. In any case, make an alias of every browser and put all of them in a single folder for handy entry.

Whenever you wish to check, boot from the second quantity, and the entire browsers can have their default settings. Whenever you’re executed, boot from the primary and your private settings on your favourite browser might be accessible.

One final element that’s helpful for testing web page designs with out resizing your display screen is the Small Display program by Daniel Schaerer. It’s free and small, and typically fairly helpful: in your monitor it’s going to draw the define of a number of different display screen sizes. By inserting your browser within the higher left nook of your display screen, you may simply see how a lot of your web page design is accessible (with out scrolling) to of us with shows smaller than yours.

Sure, it really works.

Sure, it may be sluggish, significantly with Netscape 6.x in Windows95, however usually the efficiency isn’t dangerous.

Sure, it takes a very long time to arrange however as soon as all the pieces is burned to CD, restoring elements of the setup is so simple as copying the related objects from the CD.

There are different bells and whistles that may be added to the testing station together with different browsers and different x86 working techniques that would run beneath RealPC. One different potential enhancement that goes method past the scope of this text is utilizing AppleScript to automate your testing (of scriptable browsers at the very least).

So, builders who use Macs and who can meet the modest {hardware} and software program necessities described right here can now completely check their work with out the effort of leaving their workplaces. (For some which may not essentially be an excellent factor, however that too is past the scope of this text.)

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