> JavaScript is quite difficult but let anlone full java. > But Another thing that is nice and cool is Flash. > If you want a browser to ever get anywhere popular you need to > get the following: > JavaScript, Flash, Https, ect.
There's nothing difficult in JavaScript; like CSS, it's just an alternative way of doing some thing that is already implemented in browser. For example, Arachne extention <ARACHNE MSG="..."> and JavaScript window.status="..." will do exactly the same. But Arachne extentions are proprietary, and JS is standard and therefore common in the Web. Any good programmer may create JS engine (i.e. interpreter) for Arachne, having the source of HTML parser (AFAIK, that's HTML.C), browser DOM (Document Object Model, thing related to CSS implementation), and memory access unit (xSwap)... sooner or later JS solution will exist. Java and Flash will be undoubtedly much harder to implement. Java requires a byte-code interpreter, called Java Virtual Machine. Most developers use JVM provided directly by Sun Microsystems, but I've never heard of JVM ported under DOS. Flash is a proprietary standard. There ain't such things as an independent Flash solution, and unfortunately Macromedia theirselves won't port it under DOS. So you may forget about Flash-capable Arachne for DOS. May be Arachne II wiil do Flash under Win32. Deeply yours, M M MM MM M M M I T H G O L M M http://mithgol.pp.ru/ T H E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W W W W W E B M A S T E R W W W W W
