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Re: Ready or not, here it comes...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Sep 20 04:48:08 1995

From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: daemon@java.Eng.Sun.COM (Philip Brown)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:25:58 -0800 (PDT)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <199509200318.DAA06078@shellx.best.com> from "Philip Brown" at Sep 19, 95 08:18:14 pm


Hi,

> > > 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?
> > 
> > No. It is completely seperate from Java.
> 
> 
> This time, you're wrong, Arthur :-)
> 
> 
> From
> http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/index.html
> 
> "Netscape Navigator 2.0 supports the Netscape scripting language, a
>      cross-platform language based on Java "

Oh well, we were not involved in the design of this language. It has no
relation to Java applets, it doesn't interface to Java, nor is it
implemented in Java.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff
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