Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:48:13 +0100 From: Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... Message-ID: <20000913114813.A93855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <39BE56B3.887F2788@btinternet.com>; from j.a.toon@btinternet.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:15:47PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009120035110.297-100000@adsl-151-197-209-37.bellatlantic.net> <39BE56B3.887F2788@btinternet.com>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:15:47PM +0100, John Toon wrote: > In general, there is a simple rule for determining whether Netscape will > usually crash: > > 1.) If the page has Java, it will crash. > 2.) If the page has Javascript, it will crash. > > :-( > > Some pages are the exception to these rules, but in general, they are > the *exceptions*. In particular, the JVM implentation is *appalling*; I > cannot believe it was released the way it is. I don't even consider it > Alpha quality code, given its performance. And Netscape don't seem to > have bothered fixing it with any of their further releases in the 4.xx > line. > > Given the progress of Mozilla, I expect that I might finally be able to > completely get rid of the Communicator suite with the release of M18. > Given that Java is a standard (in the loosest possible sense of the word) are there any plans to implement something along the lines of the Java Plug-in? When Sun got tired of waiting for Netscape to release a 1.2 JVM, they released a plug-in to allow Netscape to call an external JVM to handle applets. Will Mozilla take this approach? It would be a pity if they decided to write their own, especially when Sun implement another incompatible version of Java. Plus some standalone JDKs presumably run more stably (IBM on Linux, for example, is pretty solid). -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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