NODE fb14fc98RE: Mindshare and Java
Blake Coverett <blake@bcdev.com>Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
> I agree that the major innovation, and cypherpunk opportunity, of Java is
> in its cross-platform nature, not its vaunted ability to run untrusted
> code safely. I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in running untrusted code.
> Give me digitally signed code that I can trust, or for which the author
> can at least be held accountable, and I'll be happy.
Absolutely!
> As cool as many of the people on the Java team are, though, I am dubious
> that Java is going to live up to the hype. It is still not clear to me
> that Microsoft is going to support it seriously in their browser, which by
> mid-1997 will be so tightly integrated with the lowest-common-denominator
> operating system that there will be no room for Netscape.
There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers Conference
a few weeks back. In short, full support in the browsers (and apparently MS
is now the keeper of the reference implementation on Win32) and also
a full blown Java development environment code-named 'Jakarta'.
-Blake
NODE 765c4a12RE: Mindshare and Java
Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:54:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Blake Coverett wrote:
> There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers
> Conference a few weeks back. In short, full support in the browsers
> (and apparently MS is now the keeper of the reference implementation on
> Win32) and also a full blown Java development environment code-named
> 'Jakarta'.
Yes, I had the misfortune to post that skeptical bit at precisely the same
moment that the public press releases were proving me wrong :-(
My source at the PDC indicated that Microsoft was still pushing Visual
Basic, but I'll accept that there's been a change...
Still, integrating Java and Internet browsing into the OS does not bode
well for Netscape.
-rich