[1402] in java-interest
Re: html3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C Deikun)
Thu Aug 31 21:00:51 1995
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:23:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: James C Deikun <jcdst10+@pitt.edu>
To: Robert Stephen Rodgers <rsrodger@wam.umd.edu>
cc: Jason Weiler <weilerj@std.teradyne.com>, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950831104556.10706B-100000@rac6.wam.umd.edu>
On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Robert Stephen Rodgers wrote:
> > > A *lot* of PC browsers support HTML3, including Mosaic (well...) and
> > > Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
> >
> > Yes, but why do they support a non-standard? Simple...they have to
> > in order to compete with Netscape or they will sink.
>
> Well, that and the fact that the web is a lot *better* with the extensions
> than without. It's not like they're conforming to, say, an 8.3 file
> standard because the masses use a brain dead OS. They're picking up
> enhancements because they make things more pleasant and people are _using_
> them.
Does that include backgrounds and <FONT> and the like? I don't find most
of that very pleasant.
> All of which is available to Java if it gets used. If Netscape adds Java
> applet support, that'll do the job quicker than dueling browsers.
I hope Netscape doesn't, actually. If it does it's quite possible that
all notions of a standard execution environment and class library for use
by applets will fly out the window faster than you can say "<BLINK>".
> Speaking of applets, has anyone found any HotJava applets that actually do
> anything useful as opposed to wasting a minute and a half downloading
> some frames for jerky tiny animation playback?
Probably as great a proportion are useful as Web pages. Yes, I realize
that's not saying much.
--
James "[if you had Netscape there'd be a small hologram here, loser]" Deikun
Fighting the forces of evil and nastiness--tomorrow.
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