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Story on Hot Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tristan Louis)
Mon May 8 12:16:24 1995
Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 07:05:26 -0400
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: tristan@amanda.dorsai.org (Tristan Louis)
Hello folks,
I am doing a story on Hot Java for Web Week, a new trade magazine about the
Web, and would like to ask a few questions to fill in some blanks. I would
appreciate a quick respons to those question, along with your full name and
title and a note as to whether you're willing to be quoted in this story.
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of developping a site using Hot
Java?
2. Do you plan to use Hot Java on a wide scale on your site?
3. What kind of specific applications do you plan to use Hot Java for?
4. How does Hot Java make your life easier in developping code? Does it free
you up in some ways or tie you up in others?
5. How much more bandwidth does Hot Java take compared to a non-java page?
6. What trends do you think Hot Java is going to help? Is it really the
latest hot app. or do you think it has been over-hyped already?
7. Do you think Sun is about to corner the market with that one in the same
way Netscape seems to have cornered the market as far as browsers are concerned?
8. Rumor is that Hot Java allows one to do anything that can be done in
multimedia authoring directly on the web. Do you think this is on the mark
or are there unexpected limitations on using it?
9. What security issues do you foresee with Hot Java? Is Hot Java going to
be a problem as far as security is concerned? Are such tales as possible
web-based virii the tales of overscared administrators or a dangerous
possibility?
10. (for Sun people) What is Sun doing in the way of getting the <applet>
mark added to standard HTML+ ? Has the W3C already agreed on adding it to
HTML 3.0 or will it only come in later specs?
11. (for Sun people again)When will the Windows, Mac and other UNIXes (as in
AUX, AIX, regular SunOS (instead of Solaris), Linux....) browsers come out?
Will there be different implementations of the browser to include Windows
NT, Windows 3.11 and Win95 ? Will Sun offer those for free and push the
developpers to pay for the servers, as Netscape does?
Thanks a lot for answering those questions; they will definitely help in
shaping the story. If you want to check out the Web Week site, it's
available on MecklerWeb at http://www.mecklerweb.com/ww and should develop a
lot more as time goes on. BTW, as web developpers, you probably have the
right to a free subscription so check it out :)
TNL
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