[1998] in java-interest
Re: java-interest-digest V1 #175
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Marsh)
Thu Sep 21 14:40:28 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:46:34 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: jmarsh@mitre.org (John Marsh)
Correct, but since the syntax is supposed to be similar Netscape hopes that
we can leverage scripting and larger application development programmer
resources.
Makes sense.
John
>
>From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:25:58 -0800 (PDT)
>Subject: Re: Ready or not, here it comes...
>
>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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