On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:44:09 +0300, Mithgol the Webmaster wrote: <snip>
> There's nothing difficult in JavaScript; like CSS, it's just an alternative way > of doing some thing that is already implemented in browser. For example, > Arachne extention <ARACHNE MSG="..."> and JavaScript window.status="..." will > do exactly the same. But Arachne extentions are proprietary, and JS is standard > and therefore common in the Web. Any good programmer may create JS engine (i.e. > interpreter) for Arachne, having the source of HTML parser (AFAIK, that's > HTML.C), browser DOM (Document Object Model, thing related to CSS > implementation), and memory access unit (xSwap)... sooner or later JS solution > will exist. > Java and Flash will be undoubtedly much harder to implement. Java requires a > byte-code interpreter, called Java Virtual Machine. Most developers use JVM > provided directly by Sun Microsystems, but I've never heard of JVM ported under > DOS. IMHO there were at least two attempts: 1) Kaffe Open VM (open but not free) from TransVirtual Technologies http://www.transvirtual.com and 2) Sun's JavaPC package with DOS VM (Java 1.0). Check at comp.lang.java.programmer archives. > Flash is a proprietary standard. There ain't such things as an independent > Flash solution, and unfortunately Macromedia theirselves won't port it under > DOS. So you may forget about Flash-capable Arachne for DOS. May be Arachne II > wiil do Flash under Win32. Can't say about Flash (I just don't use it ;) but news support may be must instead. Regards, - -- Vasily Zatsepin | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne WWW browser v.1.70 - registered Visit http://arachne.browser.org/ - Web browser for DOS
