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IP: My error re Java secuirity -- it is Javascript security
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:20:14 -0500
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:16:34 -0500 From: Richard Fritzson <fritzson () cs umbc edu> Organization: Agents of Entropy This message from Tom Phelps is about "Javascript", not "Java". They are different languages, with different implementation models. As far as I know, no one is making any serious security claims about "Javascript". Javascript is delivered to your Netscape browser as source code, embedded in your HTML page. Java is delivered as compiled byte code. The two languages have similar syntaxes but very different semantics and capabilities. Rich Fritzson
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