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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Phil Chung wrote:

> On 13 May 1997, Igor Cizmar wrote:
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> > : WEB. Can the developers for IBROWSE, AWEB and VOYAGER (which
> > : seem to be the main three for the amiga) give some feedback on
> > : when this capability is likely to appear? IMHO the need for
> > : JAVA is becoming urgent.
> > 
> > AFAIK, developers of IBrowse are working on JAVA support, and even in
> > VoyagerNG 2.7 i saw a window which says "cannot open file xxx so cannnot
> > execute JavaScript", which means that this file will be in the future.
> 
> Isn't JavaScript and JAVA different?  JavaScript being a scripting 
> language from Microsoft?
> 

yes Javascript and Java are two completely different things.
Javascript has been developed by Netscape and it is mainly used as an 
interprted scripting language into the html file,while there is also the 
server side of Javascript being called Livewire.
Java has been developed from Sun,quite a long time ago,with the main goal 
being to create the most portable language of all.That means the 
applications being written in to be ready to run on many operating systems
as long as they have a "Java Virtual Machine" which translates Java 
bytecode to the machine you are running the programme code.
As language it is very similar to C and C++ but it is still a little bit 
of slow in heavy applications but it is good at small projects ,like 
those on the web.

kind regards
Menis Malaxianakis
visit: www.compulink.gr/amiga


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> Philip Chung                                      BSc. Computing Science
> p.y.l.chung@newcastle.ac.uk        University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
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