Re: Java Applet element proposal

Walter Ian Kaye (boo@PrimeNet.Com)
Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:50:05 EDT

At 07:55p 06/05/95, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, lilley wrote:
>
>> Lastly, the word JAVA does not seem to appear in any of these proposals.
>> Is there a tacit assumption that JAVA is and will be the only form for
>> applets? Such assumption seems somewhat premature.
>
>Yes, I would agree with that. :) They do appear to have a LANGUAGE
>attribute, but IMHO that shouldn't, as it is now, be implied.

Anyone pondering this issue should visit the following page:

http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/userland/aretha/project2embeddingscrip_228.html

(For the Macintosh, there are already two different non-Java script types
being called [obviously in a hacky way] via HTML.)

-Walter

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