From: tismer at appliedbiometrics.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:43:24 GMT
Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should
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Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> guppy wrote:
> 
> > And another kick at Netscape:
> <Jamie Z quits, CSS support sucks>
> 
> Having recently ported a sophisticated applet using JNI (Sun's new
> native interface) to JRI (older Netscape) and RNI (older IE), I too
> can kick and scream.

Same here. In my recent plugin project, I had to support
both Netscape and MSIE. The hard thing was supposed to
be MSIE, Netscape was done last year already.

But, instead, MSIE had its problems, but porting
the plugin from NS4.0 to NS4.5 took me full 10 days
and nights! They messed such a lot of things up.
Now I can sing a lot of Netscape dll entry points 
which I became very accustomed to from my debug sessions!
Code which needed to sens a JavaScript URL to one frame
window caused crashes at random time, and I had to
completely circumvent this. They're going nuts.

They should rewrite the whole crap, presumably
build it from the bones of Grail :-))

> Sheesh.

Gosh - chris

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