Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> BTW: let me jump into my soapbox mode to say that the mozilla team is
> sadly not taking advantage of Pure Java, and its added benefits.
>
> For example, there is no reason why the PSM and security libraries
> (ssl/pgp/smime) "have to be" native code. Writing these parts in 100%
> pure java would make Mozilla ports MUCH faster, as a single binary java
> class would be useable across platforms without even recompiling!!.
Because the Java VM itself is a plugin (and provided by a third party),
and since there's nothing about encryption that necessarily requires
Java, it would be strange for it to require that the Java plugin was
loaded and enabled.
