Actually, MS just paid Sun 20 million dollars to licence java for their own
use.
I don't think we need to worry about there being no Java support in IE6.
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From: "Raymond Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI current things
> The only thing that concerns me, is our friends over at Microsoft. While
> they were moving towards DOM compliance (around the time they ported IE5
to
> the Macintosh) they took a hard left with IE5.5 when they decided that war
> with the Java/Unix camp was inevitable.
>
> I have a lot of concerns with the pending Whistler/IE6 combination,
because
> I am pretty sure it's going be a major paradigm shift for them/us (think
> zero support for client side Java). M$ is moving to align all their
> products OS/Software around the .net strategy while at the same time
pushing
> the "disturbance factor" in other alternative platforms (hmmmm, this
seems
> to run like shit on my PC compared to 100% M$ products) as much as they
can
> without flagging the Justice Department "to much".
>
> Additionally, the long awaited arrival of NS6 came and went without so
much
> as a ripple of real impact. I think that good old Netscape finally found
> out how to align the bullet-filled cylinder of business blunders with
their
> head. NS6 is a dead alternative in the eyes of Joe Consumer. I can't
even
> imagine AOL wrapping there consumer online service around this browser
> instead of IE (that they use now), unless they want to hand MSN
> marketshare.
>
> In no way am I supporting an IE concentric approach. We just need to be
> aware that "shit is gonna hit the developer fan" in 3-7 months when they
> release Whistler. They have spent a billion dollars developing this
release
> with two goals in mind. Stunt the growth of Java and kill Linux as a
viable
> "consumer OS" alternative. By consumer OS I mean our average home PC
user.
>
> A scary fact is that M$ has said they don't plan on releasing IE6 as a
> public beta. It's gonna release inside the Whistler OS update. Get
> Whistler, get IE6. This means one thing. IE6 and Whistler are being
> developed in tandem to create strategic havoc for the Java/Unix camps.
>
> Javascript (the DynAPI foundation) will likely survive as a cross-platform
> language; it's to entrenched and strategically means little to M$'s end
> goals. We can :O) a bit here.
>
> This is why I don't want to spend a lot of time developing a Java Applet
> Client/Side I/O device for DynAPI2 Michael. I'm not even sure it will be
> supported with the new IE6. I think Java is going to be a server-side
tool
> for awhile.
>
> In the end, basic DOM support with the DynAPI is probably the best path.
> But lets be smart (as we can be with limited knowledge) about how we
enhance
> that API with input/output shunts to the dynamic server/side world.
>
> Laters,
>
> Ray
>
>
>
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