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| | | (...) perhaps nice, but it also presents an enormous security issue. Can you give a description of what it does before I turn my browser into a security hole? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) It makes the browser window go bezerk and start shaking all over the screen. I almost threw up. (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) lol It certainly is one way to get someone's attention - too bad I couldn't read it. It needs to shut off after a few seconds and it would be better. Out here in California I thought it was a tumbler rumbling through my ISP.. -Tom McD. when (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Yup, the future doesn't look too bright. It's a really bad thing to allow the script language to control the geometry of the client window. I'll be keeping Java turned off for the near future, I think. By the way, anybody remember the cool (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Nononononononono --- it's Javascript that does that (1). Last time I checked, Java doesn't have any control over the browser's window geometry. I keep Java turned on, Javascript turned off. (...) And this is why I keep Javascript turned off. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | (...) It can? *shiver*! Anyway, the early version of Netscape 2.0 I talked about didn't have any Java-thingeys at all, and the sendmail-tag was impossible to turn off. It's a good thing they discontinued the feature. Personally, I don't use Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | (...) Java crashes Nutscrape. Javascript doesn't. (...) In my client, all it can do is open a mailto: window, or send an email with the contents of a form _after_ you click a button, IIRC. (...) Except crashing the computer. Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —John Bauman
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| | | | | | | Jasper Janssen wrote in message <377cbc95.9819689@lu...et.com>... (...) That reminds me, I once heard it was possible for javascript to file out a filename in the file area of the form(maybe with C:\windows\cookies) (In a hidden window , of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) That's interesting. I've had many things crash Netscape for me -- Quicktime 3.0, Shockwave, HTML, etc. -- but never Java. Do you visit particularly bad applets? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) HTML crashing netscape....... Big Chaos manor Onion to them ;) (...) That would probably be the problem. The typical crashing java applet tends to be the home-crafted (by someone else, though) kind. Jasper (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —John Bauman
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| | | | Sproaticus wrote in message <376FD969.C35EB4B5@g...es.com>... (...) It uses generally the same syntax, and on netscape, it can reference the java api (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Fun with JAVA —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Hmmm... C++ uses generally the same syntax, and it can reference the Java API... That *must* mean... nah. The things that make Java Java, are not available in Javascript. These things include but aren't limited to: object-oriented (1) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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