begin  quoting Christian Seberino as of Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:14:08PM -0700:
> 
> On Wed, April 11, 2007 5:16 pm, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> > On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Christian Seberino wrote:
> >
> >> That leaves Flash.  I HAVE NO IDEA why Microsoft includes Flash in IE
> >> without trying any funny business to break compatibility.
> >
> > They don't.  I have to download the plugin for it to work.
> 
> The Flash plugin installation is easy and semi-automatic
> for Flash when you need it.

On the Mac (where Safari has Flash support out of the box, alas) I *still*
get a ton of "you must upgrade" notices.

> Is it as painless to install JVM in IE when you need it?  If yes then I'm

Reportedly so. Simpler than Java into Mozilla, I'm told.

> not sure why Java didn't take over the client side since it has such a
> head start.

It's from Sun, so Microsofties hated it and RMSofties hated it.

And the sandbox was too effective for many webheads. "What do you mean
I can't do _that_?"

-- 
General purpose languages probably aren't appropriate for a browser.
Stewart Stremler


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