Re: Need for Java
On Fri, January 23, 2009 4:10 pm, Jim Nagel wrote:
Michael Bell wrote on 23 Jan:
> So many of the sites I visit need Java. I'll have to stop using
> Netsurf if Java doesn't come some time soon. I realise it's a lot of
> work, but I don't know how to do it.
Java=Sun 'Write once, run anywhere' operating environment
Javascript=Netscape (now EMCAScript) 'write once, modify for every browser
under the sun' scripting language.
The confusion this similar naming (they have nothing else in common) has
caused, has been, and still is endless.
can somebody in the know please remind us what the issues are
regarding Java(script) for RiscOS? i thought it was that licence fees
are prohibitive when spread over such a small userbase -- wasn't that
what Acorn used to say? -- but i might misremember.
I do believe you are thinking of Java which Acorn licenced from Sun.
These days some, if not all, is open source.
See https://mobileandembedded.dev.java.net/downloads.html
This is mobile version of Java which might be suitable, but will require
developer time (a very scarce resource) to configure etc.
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Regards,
Dave Lawton