on 18/7/01 4:04 pm, MJ Ray at markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I was just sent this via the FSFEurope.org mailing lists. I recoil in horror that they might get away with this. What do others think? Is Java going to die, will this become an "optional" plug-in like VBRUN.dll was on Windows 3, or is Java mostly used on the server side anyway?
Java support in client side browsers always has been dodgy. Does anyone know of large projects which use java deployment and IE? Or will this just affect the small applets for games, etc?
"if you want your Web page accessible to the largest number of people, you may want to drop Java" and switch to Microsoft's competing set of products, which is under development and is known as .Net.
So .Net is a replacement for Java? Does it have similar functionality?
Microsoft's new products will now screen out Java as a possible carrier of computer viruses in e-mail and, under high-security settings, in Web-browsing software. ... Microsoft's new security rules don't halt the transmission of e-mail attachments that contain Microsoft Word or Excel "macros,"
No comment.
Ashley