Subject: Re: eCommerce, anyone?
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 14:39:46 MST
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2002 02:27 pm, Gordon Neault wrote:
> > That's correct. Java (Sun) and JavaScript are two completely different
> > things with confusingly similar names.
> > Apple's Runtime For Java (or anyone else's) is never used when dealing
> > with JavaScript via a browser.
>
> it is when used as the plugin - check your plugins under OS9.x and see whats
> being used for the java plugin - only server side java scripts would not be
> run by it. and yes, the reason MS stopped shipping IE with a plugin was due
> to the Sun lawsuit.
>
? the java plugin has nothing to do with javascript. They are two
totally seperate things. They can communicate with each other, yes, but
java is a runtime compiled language that is provided by a applet player
that is normally part of a larger java package installed on a machine
while javascript is a loose OO-based scripting langauage invented by
Netscape and glued into their browsers and has subsequentally become a
standard in most browsers.
MS stopped shipping their java plugin becasue they don't like Sun, want
java dead, are developing .Net to directly compete, and got sued by Sun.
Oh. and their evil :)
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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