[6114] in java-interest
Re: When will Netscape for Win3.1 support Java?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ewing)
Tue Mar 19 19:14:13 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:27:58 +1100
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From: Greg Ewing <grege@OPTIMATION.COM.AU>
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> From NewsGroup_comp-lang-java Tue Mar 19 22:34 EST 1996
> From: NewsGroup_comp-lang-java
> >From: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk (Norman Gray)
> Subject: When will Netscape for Win3.1 support Java?
> Organisation: Glasgow University
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:49:06 GMT
>
> Greetings.
>
> The present release of Netscape for Windows, 2.01, supports Java only
> for the Windows95 and NT versions, and not for the Windows3.1
> version. I would like to use Java for a particular application, but I
> would have to support Windows 3.1 machines. I read somewhere that
> Netscape 2.1 would support Java in all versions, and that it would be
> released `soon' - can anyone corroborate this?
>
> I looked through Netscape's site and, unsurprisingly, found nothing as
> rash as a release date there. I trawled through the last age of
> comp.lang.java, but I evidently didn't read the claim here.
>
> So, can anyone back up this notion, and give some estimate of how
> reliable the rumour might have been?
>
> Thanks for any pointers. All the best,
>
> Norman
>
>
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> Department of Adult and Continuing Education University of Glasgow
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>
According to JavaWorld ezine, Netscape will be java-enabled by the 2nd quarter
of 1996. Mosaic give March 1996 as the date for theirs (so presumably it is
imminent altho' I think this is a tad optimistic).
GREG
grege@optimation.com.au
