[10329] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Java is not the only applet language!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Ball)
Tue Sep 24 19:25:09 1996
To: www-talk@w3.org
Cc: steve@cs.anu.edu.au
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:52:34 +0900."
<3247BD72.50C856F5@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:10:56 +1000
From: Steven Ball <steve@cs.anu.edu.au>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Ka-Ping Yee writes:
> >From the September 9 Draft of the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
> <URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-html32>:
>
> > APPLET (Java Applets)
> >
> [...]
> >
> > Requires start and end tags. This element is supported by all Java
> > enabled browsers. It allows you to embed a Java applet into HTML
> > documents.
>
> Excuse me, but how can the W3C possibly claim that Java is
> the only WWW applet programming language?
Hear, hear! Despite some people's belief, Java is not the be-all-and-end-all.
Steve Ball, Computer Science Dept., ANU Steve.Ball@surfit.anu.edu.au
Ph. +61 6 2495146 http://surfit.anu.edu.au/steve/
Snail-mail: Canberra ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA
