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Re: Java (was Netscape: the big win)
At 06:04 PM 7/20/95 -0800, Douglas Barnes wrote:
>Uh, no, this is a standalone Java program (includes interpreter,
>language library, etc.)
>
>Applets are treated by a browser in the same way that a GIF is treated
>(more or less); the browser may have to grab more memory to take in
>a big one, but that memory can be reclaimed when the user moves on to
>a new page.
>
>Applets run as a thread within a multi-threaded browser, they don't
>have their own processes, etc.
Good. Any guesses how big a basic "Hello, World" applet would be?
Maybe 10K?
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, [email protected]