[5238] in java-interest
RE: Netscape security => lame applets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cay Horstmann)
Fri Feb 2 21:37:31 1996
From: Cay Horstmann <horstman@jupiter.SJSU.EDU>
To: "'D'Arcy Smith'" <darcy@arcs.bcit.bc.ca>,
"Cay S. Horstmann"
<horstman@jupiter.SJSU.EDU>
Cc: "'java-interest@java.sun.com'" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:20:43 -0800
Well, let's see. I go to http://java.sun.com/applets/index.html. I click =
on "applets we've written that Netscape Navigator 2.0 can run". I go to =
the stock ticker applet =
http://java.sun.com/applets/applets/StockDemo/index.html. There isn't a =
date, except for the statement "The stock data is taken from a snapshot =
of the stock market activity on December 8, 1995", so it seems fair to =
assume that it was written after that.=20
The Web page then goes on to say "These quotes can be obtained (via a =
URL) from any HTTP server that keeps a database of stock quotes."=20
That is plainly false for Netscape Navigator 2.0. Of course, one can =
make it work with a proxy server, and it may well be doable with HotJava =
once it works for the 1.0 Java release. (For that matter, it might still =
have been true on December 9. I don't remember when NN2.0B4 came out.)
Let's hope someone rewrites that page to be a little clearer about what =
would be involved in writing such an applet.=20
Cay
horstman@cs.sjsu.edu
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From: D'Arcy Smith[SMTP:darcy@arcs.bcit.bc.ca]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 1996 4:54 PM
To: Cay S. Horstmann
Subject: Re: Netscape security =3D> lame applets
Cay S. Horstmann wrote:
> Also, when you turn to the Sun page that explains the stock ticker
> applet, they suggest that an applet would be able to directly read
> from a URL with stock information. Looks like Sun needs to take some
> time to get its FAQs straight.
1) look at the date (it's an Alpha HotJava applet).
2) It depends on how your browser is configured (if you can configure =
it!)
..darcy
--=20
D'Arcy Smith, Systems Analyst
Applied Research in Computer Systems (ARCS) Laboratory
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Burnaby, BC, Canada
E-Mail: darcy@arcs.bcit.bc.ca URL http://www.arcs.bcit.bc.ca
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