17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Blake Coverett wrote:
There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers Conference a few weeks back. In short, full support in the browsers (and apparently MS is now the keeper of the reference implementation on Win32) and also a full blown Java development environment code-named 'Jakarta'.
Yes, I had the misfortune to post that skeptical bit at precisely the same moment that the public press releases were proving me wrong :-( My source at the PDC indicated that Microsoft was still pushing Visual Basic, but I'll accept that there's been a change... Still, integrating Java and Internet browsing into the OS does not bode well for Netscape. -rich