Re: getting netscape to support the remailers

>  	I started thinking about what it would take to get Netscape
>  to support sending mail through the remailers, after having
>  read the S/MIME specs which Netscape 2.0 is apparently going to
>  support. Perhaps with enough browbeating Netscape 3.0 will support
>  the remailers.

Netscape doesn't need to support remailers explicitly since Netscape will be  
supporting Java.  I think a remailer client is within Java's capabilities...   
Anyone disagree?

andrew

That was what I was thinking as well. I am confused by
Netscape's java support though.. I haven't seen very many details. Is
netscape going to only support applets or can you add stuff to the
runtime as well? In order to use jcrypt one needs access to add stuff
to the runtime I beleive.

> 
> >  	I started thinking about what it would take to get Netscape
> >  to support sending mail through the remailers, after having
> >  read the S/MIME specs which Netscape 2.0 is apparently going to
> >  support. Perhaps with enough browbeating Netscape 3.0 will support
> >  the remailers.
> 
> Netscape doesn't need to support remailers explicitly since Netscape will be  
> supporting Java.  I think a remailer client is within Java's capabilities...   
> Anyone disagree?
> 
> andrew
> 


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As far I can tell from netscapes web pages and the java mailing lists 
there only way to add to the runtime is with DLL's. Jave is only being 
used for applets. And whatever they may say their scripting language is 
not Java. (An engineer at Sun that worked on getting Java to work for 
Netscape said that Sun had nothing to do with that half cooked scripting 
language).

I for once can wait till HotJava is more stable. You can modify it at 
your hearths content. And learning Java is easy enough.

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On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, sameer wrote:

> 	That was what I was thinking as well. I am confused by
> Netscape's java support though.. I haven't seen very many details. Is
> netscape going to only support applets or can you add stuff to the
> runtime as well? In order to use jcrypt one needs access to add stuff
> to the runtime I beleive.
>

andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com said:
> Netscape doesn't need to support remailers explicitly since Netscape 
> will be   supporting Java.  I think a remailer client is within 
> Java's capabilities...    Anyone disagree? 

Depends on how Netscape impliments Java. Under HotJava it could concievably be 
done, although Security setting may restrict the browser from doing SMTP...

Actually, I would suspect it might be possible to do using forms, using a 
mailto: form.  Hmmmmmmmm.......

Bob