[83325] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Fri Jul 18 13:38:01 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:59:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
Cc: John Adams <jadams@seahawk.navy.mil>, Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>,
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
tomw@netscape.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970718095513.28674A-100000@westsec.denver.ssds.com>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Jim Burnes wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, John Adams wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
> >
> > > Nothing wrong with releasing a GNU browser, but you will find it difficult
> > > to impossible to match the features of a modern browser such as
> > > Communicator and MSIE. Some may be happy with Lynx. Myself and most
> > > consumers will stick with Communicator and MSIE.
> >
> > Is there any particular reason that NCSA's Mosaic is being ignored? Sure,
> > it's not GNU (hence not free to *everyone*) but it's out there, and it
> > works.
> >
>
> I've always been an admirer of the HotJava concept, if not the
> execution. In other words, a dynamically modifiable browser that
> "learns" how to handle new objects on-the-fly. When I first read
> Gosling's white paper on Java this was the biggest "ahaa!"
> I had. I believe there is a version that uses Python instead of
> Java, but despite the fact that I admire Python quite a bit
> Java definitely has the momentum here.
Slight correction...there is not a version of HotJava that uses
Python. I was talking about a different product.
jim
