Lynx & Java (was: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx on OS/2 -Reply)

[Hynek Med]

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, David Godshall wrote:

> OS/2 Warp 4 includes Java as part of the operating system (and this can
> be downloaded for Warp 3 as well, I believe).  The OS/2 port probably
> just passes applets to that Java.

Well, you can do this on any system with Java - on all should work
spawning

appletviewer something.java

And on Linux with java binary support even

./something.java

I guess it wouldn't be a very hard problem to incorporate this to
mainstream lynx (if it ins't done already).. And perhaps the check for
appletviewer and/or java binary support in the autoconfigure.. (By the
way, the Java binary support isn't a very good idea - one could spoof some
java code by a shell script which could do malicious things, lynx would
run ./something.java - horrible thoughts.. :-) 

Hynek

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