Essentially correct Sam AFAIK, but there is NO real connection between the
two except in the choice of name. I have a history somewhere in an HTML
manual I have if you are really interested, but ISTR one of them was
developed by Sun Microsystems (Java?) as a UNIX type (underline "type") of
so-called universal systems language, whilst the Javascript is/was developed
completely independently by a different group of people as a multi-platform
scripting language.
Again, as far as I know, both of them are now being used on the internet as
multi-browser platform (IE,Netscape et al) devices with not necessarily good
(or even what the webmaster expects) results.
Regards
Mel
-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel W. Heywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 June 2000 21:19
Subject: A concept regarding JavaScript
>As a result of much discussion on the subject of JavaScript I have
developed
>the following concept regarding it. Do you think it is valid?
>
>JavaScript is a scripting language developed for use with some browsers
>that have been especially designed for rendering and interpreting it.
>Although the script may bear much resemblance to source code designed to
>be compiled with a Java Compiler, and although a complimentary
>relationship may be incorrectly inferred to exist from the similarity in
>their names, JavaScript and Java are unrelated. From a strictly technical
>standpoint, there is absolutely no relationship whatsoever between
>JavaScript and Java.
>
>Opinions anyone?
>
>Sam Heywood
>
>
