Java, Blacbird and The Future of the Web ...

Pat Anderson pfa at nwu.edu
Mon Nov 20 11:15:11 EST 1995


>Not having seen a demo of either of these I can't really comment on how
>revolutionary they will be, however the 9/15/95 PC Week (p.220, also
>apparently on the web at: http://www.zdnet.com/~pcweek/reviews/reviews.html)
>indicates that "the hype is still way ahead of the reality" ...

This has been my experience also. Not to mention that Netscape 2.0
was billed as supporting Java applets and actually only supports
roughly 5% of the already existing applets. Java sounds great,
but will it solidify before something else gets into that area
of the market?

Pat Anderson

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