Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

[JTK]

Mark Anderson wrote:
> 
> JTK wrote:
> >
> > But I do have to give Netscape credit for finally dropping the "Jazilla"
> > concept.  God, can you imagine?
> 
> Actually, yeah.  Java's a whole lot easier to design good renderers in
> than C++.
> 

Right, which is why they (and you) dropped it.

> I say that as one of the former developers of Jazilla.  Netscape
> abandoned it long (read: years) before we did anything with it (and none
> of the source is in common with the original Netscape project).  We just
> ran out of free time.

Wait.  I thought you just said it was *easier* to design a *good*
renderer (I'm assuming HTML) in Java than in C++.  Yet you "ran out of
time" to do it *easier*?!?