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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: JAVA + See some of my ideas
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:55:31 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960401.7939E48.91AD@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <884.6645T797T2962@atnet.at> <66095534@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE> <3150956C.549B@sysplan.com> <3064.6659T1306T1965@atnet.at> <19960327.79CA578.FCBD@localhost.UUCP>
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- In <19960327.79CA578.FCBD@localhost.UUCP>, jshaffer@mail.csrlink.net (Jim Shaffer, Jr.) wrote:
- > In article <3064.6659T1306T1965@atnet.at> rabauke@atnet.at (Peter Routsis) writes:
- > > answer seemed rather "short-sighted" to me. Because noone can ignore JAVA
- > > anymore,
- > I'm ignoring it quite easily now that I got AWeb :-)
- > With AMosaic, I always had to look at the script cluttering the page.
-
- Are you sure you're not confusing Java (Sun's byte-code-interpreted
- system for distributing executables portably) with JavaScript
- (NetScapes built-into-the-browser extension language)? Even though
- NetScape chose to change the name (from LiveScript) to capitalize on
- the hype for Java, and they both look like C, they really aren't
- closely related.
-
- As for ignoring JavaScript scripts - Amosaics broken comment handling
- (as written by the authors of NetScape) causes the bogus "comment it
- out" technic recommended by NetScape to fail in almost everycase.
-
- NetScapes broken comment handling causes that same bogus technic to
- work in cases where it shouldn't; it only fails if you use slightly
- strange whitespace conventions (*).
-
- AWebs correctly parses comments; there are some common real-life
- idioms that will terminate the comment early. You've just been lucky
- enough not to run into any of them, or are running AWeb in the mode
- that causes it to misparse HTML files.
-
- <mike
-
- *) NetScape (through 2.0; haven't tried 3.0 yet) terminates comments
- on "-->"; it ignores valid comment delimiters that have whitespace in
- front of the ">". This means that the standard formatting for the
- expression "i-- > 0" will cause aweb in "correct" mode to terminate a
- comment, but not netScape. To get NetScape to terminate it, you have
- to use the slightly strange "i-->0". All of them handle the invalid
- HTML generated by using the "--" operator inside a comment just fine.
-