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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (26989)	11/15/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213182

Are you saying that Macs cannot access the internet using Internet Explorer? I have a Performa 6290 and I can use both I.E. and Netscape even with Java. I'm not an expert and perhaps you are talking about something else. He's talking about Internet pages which use Java applets to provide special features. Sometimes these pages work on Netscape Communicator 4.7, but not on IE 4.5. Sometimes they'll work on IE4.5 but not Communicator. It really is a hit and miss affair because most developers just test on the standard Windows Java implementation (not Windows-specific, just the one which is supposed to work as specified by Sun's latest reference release). In many cases, the Mac implementation of the Java virtual machine does not conform to the standard, or at least has some bugs which cause it to crash in particular circumstances. For example, I regularly have problems with ESPN's Java GameDay Live applets, Yahoo's Java chat, and even Island.com's Java book viewer (for daytrading). Some of these will only work on IE 4.5, some will only work under Netscape, and some won't work at all regardless of which browser you use. I know that Apple has recently been advertising for Java compiler engineers, so perhaps they are recognizing that they need to do some serious work in this area to avoid being an also-ran. Fru!