> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael A. Stone
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 3:38 PM
> ... NS crashing due to incompatability with Microsoft's
> nonstandard Java puts a new spin on the question of who's to blame.
I don't understand. What could MS's implementation of Java have to
do with Netscape crashing?
> in the realm of personal opinion, i wouldn't be at all surprised
> to find that the Microsoft JVM has been specially tuned for
> marginal compatability with anything NS needs.
Is it possible that you think that Netscape uses the Microsoft
implementation of the JVM when running on Windows?
> i've also heard (and am willing to believe, though i have no direct
> evidence) that Microsoft's private JVM is 'better' than the standard
> version on Windows platforms because it's more closely tied to the OS
> treadmill.
What implementation of the JVM is "the standard version on Windows
platforms?" I take it you don't mean the MS implementation, because
you think that it is better than the standard one. Do you mean the
Netscape implementation of the JVM?
> if it suited Microsoft's purposes to release a fully-compliant
> JVM which was just as powerful as their private one, (they could) ...
In fact, they couldn't, because the JVM specification Sun gave to the
ISO SG22 has a pretty fair number of internal inconsistencies; no single
implementation could be "fully-compliant." The Microsoft implementation
is closer to compliance than any other, including Sun's, and is much
closer than Netscape's.
Bob Munck
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