[1910] in java-interest
Ready or not, here it comes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen C. Perkins)
Tue Sep 19 20:30:36 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:20:30 -0700
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Glen.Perkins@MediaCity.com (Glen C. Perkins)
Fellow Javans,
Just in case you haven't already done so, check out Netscape's new
announcements at
http://home.netscape.com/
Netscape is clearly on its way to becoming a multiplatform operating system
for communicative apps (which could be most apps in a few short years.)
It appears as though there will be APIs to drive the Macromedia Director
player, the Acrobat viewer, a RealAudio player, and any other plug-in that
conforms to the Netscape APIs from Java programs.
Am I misinterpreting this? I don't see any docs for the Netscape Navigator
scripting language yet, but I'm assuming it's just Java plus the netscape.*
classes, and I'm assuming that the netscape.* classes will contain some
generic interfaces for driving "plug-ins" that conform to the Netscape
plug-in API. Does that sound right?
I also imagine we will also have access to netscape.* APIs for e-mail, ftp,
newsgroups, and all the other goodies built into the new Netscape. Maybe
Sun was asked to put their former alpha3 networking APIs into a sun.*
hierarchy because Netscape wanted to do a much fancier version of all of
them than the Java team had put together, not because Netscape didn't
intend to implement them at all. If I'm right, we can just consider it a
massive addition of resources to the Java team.
I wonder how long it will be before Netscape offers to buy Java (and the
Java team) from Sun outright. I hear Netscape recently raised a little
money....
__Glen__
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