Re: [Sheflug] Netscape and Java ...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> How about HotSpot, or whatever the browser is that ships with the JDK? I'd
> imagine that's your best bet.

HotJava? Ain't nothing hot about it. It's a turkey. (I doubt the Java
support is even that good TBH) Sun have all but given up maintaining it.

> I certainly woudn't recommend Gnome or KDE for it, although out of the two
> KDE is the likelier, but Mozilla nightly was supposed to be okay at Java -
> at least, last time I looked. Tried updating your JRE?

GNOME has no particular web abilities (gtkhtml is a reasonable widget, but
no CSS, JS or Java, mnemonic is in limbo [again], dillo is very immature).
I must admit to having given up on Mozilla, each build seems to be broken
in subtly different ways...


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