[1420] in java-interest
Re: Java is not on its death-bed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JD Brennan)
Fri Sep 1 15:51:13 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:07:41 -0700
From: JD Brennan <brennan@symbologic.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <86616860@toto.iv>
Reply-To: JD Brennan <brennan@symbologic.com>
Jason Weiler writes:
> Last I checked HTML 3.0 didn't exist outside of the minds of
> Net(e)scapers.
There's a web browser called Arena that supported HTML 3.0 before
Netscape did. Netscape is just more well known, but they weren't
first.
> Yes, yes, yes...I know there are "standards". But MY money says that
> Netscape will shape the web in it's own image simply on clout. If
> enough users use the Netscape-only features, they'll surely bitch until
> these features are made into a standard. (see backgrounds)
I'll take a proprietary product over something designed by
a (standards) committee any day. They are almost always better.
Assuming the product runs on all platforms I care about.
JD Brennan
[brennan@symbologic.com Symbologic Corp., Seattle, WA]
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