It has been my DREAM to see the 1.1 JVM Applets abolished. It really was
a matter of time, until that old JVM code was ripped out of browsers where
it does not belong and people use the official java plug-ins. Except I
can see a lot of growing pains, because possibly 99.9% of all applets are
the old <applet> kind and not the new plug-in kind, thus shutting down
alot of the older sites... sigh
fernando
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Avi Cherry wrote:
> Actually, Microsoft has only been ALLOWED to ship a very old (version
> 1.1) JVM with Windows, because of the settlement with Sun.
> Speculation is that this is for the best, because it will stop people
> from having to write for the lowest common denominator VM out there,
> which is Microsoft's. Apparently it takes all of a minute or so
> (depending on connection speed) to download Sun's VM, and happens
> almost automatically, just like any other browser plug-in.
> So... Big deal, I say.
> Anybody running an actual Java APPLICATION is surely going to
> download a separate JVM anyway, so this really only makes a
> difference for the browser, which is really no big loss.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Avi
>
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