From: gmcm at hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:51:03 GMT
Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should 
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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.

Despite the fact that JNI is modelled on JRI, it was _much_ easier to 
port to RNI. Besides taking a whole lot more code (you have to do the 
whole silly "plugin" thing), Netscape was prone to crash at strange 
times for unknown reasons.

There's even a difference between exiting from the file menu and 
closing from the title bar.

When's the last time you closed a GUI from the file menu??

Sheesh.


- Gordon




