re: Still think your browser isn't obsolete?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|I have heard people complain they got more ads after they installed Java.
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It sounds like they confused Java and JavaScript
--which have nothing to do with each other.
I can't imagine anyone serving up ads via Java;
waiting for the Java engine to crank up would take forever on many folks' boxes.
|Don't know if that is true
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That sounds like wishful thinking and the placebo effect to me.
Now, a lot of Flash content is triggered via JavaScript;
the tools to intercept that with any granularity are NoScript and/or AdBlock Plus
(which only work in Mozilla browsers).
Opera has something similar to AdBlock.
|but that is the main reason I don't have it installed except for the old MS Java.
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M$'s "version of Java" is a fiasco. It was a big point in USA vs Microsoft.
M$ wanted everybody (developers) to use ActiveX
--which was even more horribly broken than their "Java".
(M$'s stupid designers NEVER think about security until it's too late).
If you ran into pages that required Java, you'd know.
The machine would bog down while the Java engine loaded.
You should see a coffee cup graphic on those pages until Java has fully loaded.
The *write once, run anywhere* notion was well-intentioned
but in practice it didn't work well. Eventually Flash ate Java's lunch.
In one big context, the HTML5 {video} tag is expected to eat Flash's lunch next.
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