Re: New FTA site - with on-line IIgs (java emulator)!!

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

In article <declan_macleoid-926237.19584706032003@news-server.nc.rr.com>,
Declan MacLeod <declan_macleoid@hotmail.com> writes:

>In article <xrR9a.2185$wW.293279@news2.telusplanet.net>,
> "Tom Peng" <tom@spam.mediastep.com> wrote:
>
>> With regard to comments that they cannot view this in browsers other than
>> IE, the emulator is encapsulated in an ActiveX control and is therefore
>best
>> run in an IE browser.
>> 
>> Amazing emulation by the way.
>> 
>> Tom Peng
>> 
>> 
>
>If it is browser specific, then it is a poor application.  Sorry, but 
>that's why standards exist....

It is not a "browser" application--it is a Windows/MSIE application.
This is clear when viewing it in MSIE--it should also be easily seen
when viewing in even a text browser.

Contrary to the thread title, it is not in Java, but is a DirectX app,
and therefore platform-specific.

There is certainly a place for platform-specific applications, even on the
Web.  (Particularly considering the ubiquity of the platform for which it
is intended.)

-michael

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