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Microsoft does support Jar files. They have to in order to support beans (which they also do, strange and wonderful as it might seem). Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: David Megginson [SMTP:ak117@f...] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 1:37 PM > To: xml-dev Mailing List > Subject: Re: SAX: How many interfaces? > > Peter Murray-Rust writes: > > > >There remain strong pragmatic arguments for the > > >everything-in-a-single-interface approach. > > > > I'll leave this to you - but I wouldn't dissent from simplicity > > It seems strange to C++ and other traditional programmers that the > number of class files matters so much in Java, but for applets in the > current generation of web browsers, it's critical -- each *.class file > requires a separate HTTP connection, and depending on server load, > there may be several seconds latency for each connection. > > I generally give up on a web page after about 10 seconds unless it's > very important to me (few corporate pages get fully rendered before I > hit "Back"), so as an applet writer, I want to introduce as little > delay as possible. Java 1.1 defines the JAR format, which allows > multiple classes in a single file, but the most widely deployed > browsers (Navigator 3.x and MSIE 3.x) do not support it, and I don't > know if Microsoft supports JARs even in newer versions, since they > have decided to not to upgrade to never versions of Java. NS 3.x > supports zip files, and MSIE 3.x supports CAB files, but neither works > for both. > > Ælfred will continue to support a single-file callback interface, so > perhaps people who need to limit the number of class files will be > forced to use Ælfred's native interface instead of SAX. > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson ak117@f... > Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... > http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, > mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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