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Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do

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On 12/6/2011 11:47 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> You could least write a program for DOS and have it run on any DOS or
> Windows machine. Because of browsers you can't even do wora anymore
> even within Windows.  From a practical point of view, JavaScript and
> browsers mean programmers spend more time dealing with tweaking to
> make code work everywhere than they did before.  Command line stuff is
> great. It is browsers, JavaScript and forms that drive you nuts.

I wasn't around for DOS, but certainly any era of Windows that I lived 
through never had a "WORA" effect, even if you limit it to just Windows 
machines (possibly even to just a /version/ of Windows). On top of that, 
in my lifetime, there have only been 2 years where I was not in contact 
with a non-Windows-based computers, so even limiting it to Windows isn't 
limiting.

As someone who has done some limited browser + JS coding, it has not 
been my experience that I spend any time tweaking to make code work 
everywhere. I don't mean it to imply that this isn't the case, but I 
will point that there are toolkits which paper over most of the 
inconsistencies for you.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 15:28 -0800
  Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-29 15:41 -0800
    Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 16:36 -0800
      Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-11-30 16:51 +0000
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-30 11:30 -0800
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-01 01:59 -0800
          Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 06:47 -0800
            Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:58 -0800
              Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:20 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 09:23 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-03 11:28 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-06 21:47 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 07:08 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-07 10:27 -0600

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