On Friday 02 July 2004 12:42, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > That sounds like a good choice of APIs to me, at least for the present. > 1.1 is pretty much here with Classpath, AFAICS, so that should give a > working Java implementation, which looks better to users wanting to use > Classpath and distros wanting to ship it. Most applets probably only > need this level of support, I'd imagine -- don't know if things have > changed recently.
1.1.x has become a standard for web applets, because of MS's refusal to support anything more modern in IE. That situation may change now after the settlement between MS and Sun, but 1.1.x will probably remain the lingua franca of the www for some time. Applets requiring later versions of the APIs certainly exist, but mainly in an intranet/extranet context, where it's feasible to require that users have a certain plug-in installed. Putting 1.1.x into a separate CVS branch would have the advantage that APIs which have since been deprecated could be treated as such in the other branches, which could make for much cleaner code. -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.kiffer.be/k/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 3 216 0369 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
