SAX: How many interfaces?

[Howard Katz]

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 at freenet.carleton.ca]
> 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
> 
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