Java and browsers

[Shayne Patton]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> It may be helpful to install the Java "vitrual machine" and "runtime 
>environment".  It's a bout twenty megabytes of glop, but at least you can 
>download it seperately from the development pack, at least from Sun.
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>All the different java options can also be multiplied by whether they're Sun 
>java or IBM java.  (Didn't Microsoft release some incompatible stuff as 
>"java" too?)
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>HTML.  That's all a real geek needs is HTML.
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"HTML. That's all a real geek needs is HTML." 

Not that I disagree, but I'm curious why you would make this statement 
with so many cool languages (toys to be played with :-) ) around?  It's 
kinda like saying "16 bits is plenty" isn't it?

Universally,
Shayne