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Re: Ready or not, here it comes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Tue Sep 19 23:03:35 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 19:28:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: "Glen C. Perkins" <Glen.Perkins@MediaCity.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <v0151010eac8476aaf067@[192.0.2.1]>
I would not guess as you did that the netscape plug-ins are written in
Java. If you look closely to their press relase it says they are
plattaform dependant. That does not sound like java. Could it be they
where developing their on networked (yet non plattaform independant) language
and when Java catched on fire they had to include it to? We'll see when
it comes out.
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On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Glen C. Perkins wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:20:30 -0700
> From: Glen C. Perkins <Glen.Perkins@MediaCity.com>
> To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> Subject: Ready or not, here it comes...
>
> 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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>
>
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