Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!phil.s1 From: phil.s1@bolthole.com.no-bots (Philip Brown) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Date: 25 Mar 1998 21:39:18 GMT Organization: Phil's Software Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <6f3p9b$ntb@fridge.shore.net> Reply-To: phil.s1@bolthole.com.no-bots NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com X-Trace: 890861958 8656 bolthole 206.184.139.132 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.0 UNIX) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.java.gui:12034 comp.lang.java.help:20312 comp.lang.beta:11493 On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:40:51 -0500, hayesm@wpi.edu wrote: >On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Adam M Gaffin wrote: > >>Ah, remember when Java was supposed to be cross-platform? >>... > >Well, the code for this applet has no 'enhancements' of any kind - be they >Microsoft or any other browser or OS. Our applet is JDK 1.1 compliant and >is 100% pure Java. i.e. no enhancements -- The only problem is that >Microsoft has the only JVM that handles how we do our word-wrapping for >the TextArea... It's not our fault that Netscape and whoever else is a >little behind there - someday they'll catch up. It's one thing to say netscape has a bug. But if your stuff ONLY runs "correctly" on a microsoft VM, and not MJE, or jdk1.1 appletviewer, or netscape... then it is YOU folks who need to "catch up". You are using a platform specific "feature", that will most likely never be a part of other java runtimes. So you may as well just put "For microsoft only" on your product, for all time. [trim the no-bots from my address to reply to me by email!] -------------------------------------------------- "initiating.. 'getting the hell out of here' maneouver" - Lennier, babylon5