- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Cc: www-talk <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Fisher Mark wrote: > Netscape has announced support for Java in their browsers, probably by the > end of the year > (<URL:http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease25.html>). This lets > the genie out of the bottle, as Netscape can then be extended in a nearly > arbitrary fashion. From what I understand of Java, it should not take a lot > of time to create a file upload applet. Java is cool, and I'd definitely prefer to see it used to extend *capabilities* of browsers (new widgets, a better data type handler, a new or better protocol handler) than the majority of uses I see now (animation), but does the presence of Java in a browser suddenly mean the browser doesn't have to have any standard or well-classed behaviors? Should we just ditch forms altogether because a Java AWT widget could be used instead? At what point do the worlds of Java and formalism collide? Dan? That said, Java is a damn good way to *prototype* new potential web standards. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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