SAX: How many interfaces? -- A sidenote on CAB and ZIP

[Don Park]

David,

>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.

APPLET tags which specifies both a CAB as well as a ZIP will work on both
browsers because Netcape ignores CAB and IE ignores ZIP.  So the number of
classes does not really matter except that bytecode verifier will run faster
and SAX programmers will have less things to 'not' worry about.

Don



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