HotJava Browser 1.0

[jedwards at uottawa.ca]

Bill,

I agree totally with you. My experience with it has been very 
disapointing. I  tried HotJava Browser 1.0  on a 133 pentium, 24mb 
ram with Windows 95 and it was clear that I will not be considering 
using it. We will have to wait for another version. Right now it id 
far from being attractive at all and it certainly does not give a 
very good image of JAVA. 

I would like to add the following points from the HotJava Browser 
FAQ
(  http:// www.javasoft.com/products/HotJava/hjfaq.html#nonetnews ):

1. Viewing  files from the c: drive is not done  as with 
    Netscape or Internet Explorer. You need to use a different 
syntax. Ex: /c:/yourfile

2.HotJava 1.0 does not support JavaScript

3. It appears that you can send mail but not read mail?

4. HotJava 1.0 does not support network news (NNTP) 

Jean-Marc Edwards
Systems Librarian
University of Ottawa





> Date:          Mon, 31 Mar 1997 07:55:40 -0800
> Reply-to:      drewwe at morrisville.edu
> From:          Wilfred Drew <drewwe at morrisville.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject:       Re: HotJava Browser 1.0

> Peter Scott wrote:
> > 
> > Just released. Non-beta version for Windows 95/NT and Solaris.
> > 
> > http://www.javasoft.com/products/HotJava/
> I have been playing with this browser this morning. Don't waste your
> time.  It doesn't appear to recognize Java applets and JavaScripts that
> work very well in Netscape.  There is no place to set up a telnet
> program or TN3270 program.  I was hoping it would be a good replacement
> for Netscape on our public Windows 95 stations since it is supposed to
> be configurable for such purposes.  I will keep playing with it.
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