unhappy user wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> unhappy user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> - why the hell it forces Java console icon...
>>>
>>
>> Mozilla doesn't do this, Java does this.
>
>
> Netscape didn't have this problem... while having exactly the save
> version of JVM (1.3.something) installed.
>
>>> - why [...] when I load file for wieving, it gets a random name? to
>>> make winzip browser integration create a pile of random files
>>> instead of normally named?
>>>
>>
>> To reduce the risk of filename collision, likely.
>
>
> So? Are the files holy or what? How about good old "ask user to rename
> or overwrite" popup?
>
> Forcing random filenames makes sense only in fully unattended
> operation - and this is not the case with web browser.
>
Netscape 4.x did not have the icon because it did not use the 1.3 JVM
from sun, it uses the built-in Symantec JVM, which is something like
1.1.8. The 1.3 JVM only activates itself when it is specifically called
in 4.x, not whenever a java app is encountered, then the built in one
handles that.
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