At 01:26 PM 4/22/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
At 23:35 4/21/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
Were they Java, or JavaScript? Much different. Among other things, JavaScript runs on Win3.1, and Netscape doesn't let you turn it off. I've had at least one event of JavaScript crashing Netscape; the part of the script I noticed was scrolling lots of stuff along the bottom
Javascript started the new browser. The renegade applet was Animator, which is Java, I believe.
I didn't spend much effort investigating it, since I try to stay away from doing things over that have hosed my system twice in a row. Win95, Atlas beta. The offending page was http://www.dippybird.com/java.html
The one advantage to Netscape 3.0 is that you can turn Javascript off. (You may be able to do that in 2.01 as well...) 3.0 has some pretty nasty bugs. There appears to be a memory leak dealing with forms, as well as a number of nasty little gotchas. (I have been getting crashes that seem to be assocaited with one of the plug-ins.) Hopefully the next beta is out for 3.0. (I have not checked in the last couple of days, so it may be... Sunday night seems to be the favored time of posting.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon