Bernie wrote:
>
> Day wrote:
> >But since it has the power to write to your
> >hard drive, the damage risk from sabotage software is horrendous.
>
> JAVA can NOT and MUST NOT be able to write to the disk in a browser. A well
> known software company in Seattle which claims to be "small" couldn't
> understand this concept and thus IE (still so I think) don't support Java
> (I do think they've fixed that part by now).
> //Bernie
I guess we have a nomenclature problem. when they speak of
JAVA 'applets' what are they talking about? How is that
different from the attachment executables with viruses that
plague IE? I can see where they might not intend for JAVA
to leave anything on the disk, but if it exceeds available
RAM...
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