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On 26 Oct 2000 22:11:00 GMT esteemed Joi Ellis did'st hold forth thusly:
> Not likely at all.  Microsoft sure isn't going to make the effort
> after getting their hand slapped for the Java license violations they
> committed.

Without or without legal actions against them by Sun you can be sure that 
MSFT isn't going to make it easy to use Swing in IE. They do not want 
Java to become really useful and popular for cross-platform_ programming. 
Well, Swing is all about cross-platform compatibility. Hence MS doesn't 
want to support Swing. MSFT isn't being tardy about Swing support because 
Sun sued them. MSFT doesn't want to see Swing get used period.

> I wouldn't count on Netscape doing it within the next year, either.
> They already had, what, 2+ years since 1.2 first came out?

Netscape v6 will be much more advanced in terms of Java support. 
Metscape's problem in enhancing standards support goes a lot deeper than 
their lack of embrace of later JVM versions. Since Moz/Netscape 6 hasn't 
shipped they are still supporting HTML/Javascript and related standards 
at the levels they were at a few years ago. 

At the same time, Opera 4 is much better with their Java support as well 
as with Javscript, HTML, and other standards. One of the download 
versions of Opera 4 comes with Java 1.3. So its a Swinging browser <g.>.