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<LI><em>From</em>: "Jon A. Lambert" <<A HREF="mailto:Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com">Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:05:11 -5</LI>
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On 27 Feb 98 at 16:51, Ben Greear wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
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> > Yep. Big problem. Will they ever? Not if IE supplants Netscape and
> > Sun doesn't cry uncle and remove or revise certain "MS offensive"
> > specifications from the 1.1 JDK. BTW, This is not a diatribe either
> > way, just an observation of the current state.
> >
> > One can get most of the 1.1 JDK to work in most browsers. It's just
> > a real pain in the ass to find out what to stay way from. The
> > only alternative is to maintain different versions. (groan)
>
> Thats not really true. AFAIK, only netscape 4.04 with the java
> patch and IE 4.01 will run JDK 1.1. I think Netscape 4.0x with a
> patch will kinda run 1.1. Hotjava and stuff will, of course...but
> no one has it..
>
You are correct. My goof. The 4.x browsers only account for about
20% of the market currently.
> >
> > ActiveX is supported by Netscape and IE so thats 80%+ of your
> > web clients (Lynx be damned!). However, I don't know of any non-MS
> > server-side support for ActiveX. JavaBeans are also easier to code
> > and understand.
>
> Hmmm, might have been a misunderstanding here. activator is a
> product from sun that will leverages a JRE or JDK (the latest, or
> you're choice) to run applets. It's a plugin, and they supposedly
> work with netscape 3.03+ and IE 3.??+. Last time I tried my applet
> it choked though..although from Solaris it did quite nicely.
>
I guess so. I'd hadn't heard of Activator. Sounds like it
redirects the execution of the bytecode over to the Sun VM.
Hmmm... Another layer of interface?
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00598" HREF="msg00598.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com">Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 05:41 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00601" HREF="msg00601.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 06:21 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00615" HREF="msg00615.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com">Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 05:43 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00634" HREF="msg00634.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Sat 28 Feb 1998, 00:44 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00639" HREF="msg00639.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com">Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 28 Feb 1998, 03:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00770" HREF="msg00770.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 19 Mar 1998, 22:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00595" HREF="msg00595.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 03:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00602" HREF="msg00602.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
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