RE: Info about javaScripting!!!
RE: Info about javaScripting!!!
- Subject: RE: Info about javaScripting!!!
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:17:12 -0700
At 15:45 -0500 7/23/2001, Greg Meece wrote:
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AFAIK, JavaScript is confined to
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operating within a browser environment, and each browser supports
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different subsets/supersets of the "official" standard. You can do some
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nifty things with it, but you aren't going to get much OS interaction
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with it.
Actually, a JavaScript Open Scripting Architecture implementation is
available here
http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/index.html
(currently shown as "beta").
As I do not know or wish to learn JavaScript, I haven't messed with it.
The above in no way is intended to interfere with the distinction Greg
accurately draws between Java and JavaScript.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA