On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Wilfred Verkley wrote:
> Out of curiosity, has anyone ever deployed an Internet application with a
> simple telnet client, or some kind of terminal like X-Windows?
Depends on how simple you want :-) I once wrote a simple telnet daemon to
control WinAMP. You telnetted to its
>I'd be thinking about either another delivery mechanism
>(custom APP that talks HTTP maybe, ala Virtual Spectator),
>or something like Flash or Director, which is a little
>more trust-worthy than ActiveX.
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever deployed an Internet application with a
simple telnet
]>
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> Nothing that uses a web browser. HTML is a VERY basic page description
> language. ActiveX is a security hole wide enough to sail the
> titanic thru.
I mostly agree but for simple one page apps a HTMl/DHTML + scripting can be
OK.
> I'd be thinking about either another delivery mechanism
> (
> Nic, if delivering dynamic, interactive sites of a very high
> standard. What
> should be used?
Nothing that uses a web browser. HTML is a VERY basic page description
language. ActiveX is a security hole wide enough to sail the titanic thru.
DHTML is not a standard (well, it is - IE5 implements
> -Original Message-
> From: Matthew Comb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:53 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Active-x
>
>
> Nic, if delivering dynamic, interactive sites of a very high
> stan
delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Active-x
> Only if you use Java 1.0 (old as the hills), or get the Java plug in
(20meg
> or so). Not pretty.
>
> I'd avoid BOTH if at all possible. Good for Intranet, VERY bad for
I
: Nic Wise [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 7 April 2000 12:40
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Active-x
>
> Only if you use Java 1.0 (old as the hills), or get the Java plug in
> (20meg
> or so). Not pretty.
>
> I'd
Only if you use Java 1.0 (old as the hills), or get the Java plug in (20meg
or so). Not pretty.
I'd avoid BOTH if at all possible. Good for Intranet, VERY bad for Internet.
N
> 1. Yes.
> 2. No. But then who knows with MS.
> 3. Current versions no, Next version I believe so. You can use plugi
1. Yes.
2. No. But then who knows with MS.
3. Current versions no, Next version I believe so. You can use plugins
instead. Recommend if you do anything like this to use Java applets/classes
instead - then at least it is supposed to work in both browsers okay (but
again may need minor differences i
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