Re: [Sheflug] Netscape and Java ...

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

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Have you actually tried it? Last time I was developing client-side Java
> (1.1, so a while ago ;) it was kind of the reference platform... for
> applets, anyway.

Yep. And TBH I was less than impressed. It was 6 months ago, but I doubt
there has been much change. In fact, I'd best check. :)

> Heh ;) I use seamonkey at work, no problems at all ;) I also find Galeon is
> pretty good, as are *-moz-embedded. I guess it depends very much what you're
> running. I've also had the Helix editions of Moz, and they've been pretty
> solid, if a bit old and manky.

Dunno. rpm --rebuild chokes for me, and I shed few tears. (Oh, OK, none)


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