Re: Microsoft pulls back on Java support

2001-07-18 Thread Fernando Padilla
It has been my DREAM to see the 1.1 JVM Applets abolished. It really was a matter of time, until that old JVM code was ripped out of browsers where it does not belong and people use the official java plug-ins. Except I can see a lot of growing pains, because possibly 99.9% of all applets are th

Re: Microsoft pulls back on Java support

2001-07-18 Thread Avi Cherry
Actually, Microsoft has only been ALLOWED to ship a very old (version 1.1) JVM with Windows, because of the settlement with Sun. Speculation is that this is for the best, because it will stop people from having to write for the lowest common denominator VM out there, which is Microsoft's. App

Re: Microsoft pulls back on Java support

2001-07-18 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Mike Braden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone seen this yet? So what? They're dropping support for applets in the standard Windows-XP distribution... We're working on the other side, who the crap cares about applets? :) :) :) Pier ---