Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News

[Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Jim Burnes wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, John Adams wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
> > 
> > > Nothing wrong with releasing a GNU browser, but you will find it difficult
> > > to impossible to match the features of a modern browser such as
> > > Communicator and MSIE. Some may be happy with Lynx. Myself and most
> > > consumers will stick with Communicator and MSIE.
> > 
> > Is there any particular reason that NCSA's Mosaic is being ignored?  Sure,
> > it's not GNU (hence not free to *everyone*) but it's out there, and it
> > works.
> > 
> 
> I've always been an admirer of the HotJava concept, if not the 
> execution.  In other words, a dynamically modifiable browser that
> "learns" how to handle new objects on-the-fly.  When I first read
> Gosling's white paper on Java this was the biggest "ahaa!"
> I had.  I believe there is a version that uses Python instead of
> Java, but despite the fact that I admire Python quite a bit
> Java definitely has the momentum here.


Slight correction...there is not a version of HotJava that uses
Python.  I was talking about a different product.

jim