the java function works fairly well if the right java applications are
used.many and i mean many of the java games work very well.

many get confused with shockwave games and java games...not their
fault but mostly the web designers faults.they "lump" java and
shockwave applications together and when you did a search on pw 3 for
"java games"..you would end up getting shockwave flash...many dc users
couldnt see if it was java or flash due to no source viewer at hand to
see any extension differences..thus believed they just didnt work.

i believe excalibur had many java games working on pw for xdp at one
time...not sure if they ended up in the final work tho.the ones we
worked on together worked failry well..with a few exceptions where
frames or popup window scripts where used in the java.


planetweb 3 was overall not what many had hoped for around here,and
thus just did not sell after initial reviews from those whom had it
and saw it in action got out there.among those where mine and plot's
reviews..dismal..to be nice about it..we had suggested many features
to planetweb that made sense...like just dumping flash support
altogether,and java as well..and focus on beefing up JS,css,cut copy
paste functions..and even pondered dumping dreamcall(which they did
any way..)to free dc memory for the things that would have made pw 3 a
real alternative to dp...planetweb just didnt listen to the ONLY
audience and trusted authority they had to rely on..this group.


we made suggestions..if implemented..would still be seeling today..and
might have resulted in even more updates.


to bad they didnt think actually turning the toy known as planetweb
browser into a real web browser was a selling point.

i cant see buying it at all.

not at anything over $9.95 a disc...it just isnt worth it.


Curtis




--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "coffeepro" <coffeepro@...>
wrote:
>
> Interesting. The java was ambitious (and I'm sure quite costly) but
ended up with little functionality.
> The biggest feature, which should have been in 2.0 and higher,
definetly would have been copy + paste. The earliest DreamKey had
that. It's a basic, expected browser function. Having the use of
hotkeys and new (unread) email notification would have been a close
second. A third party IM would have been icing on the cake. Kudos
though for a very good IRC client, nice tools from planetwebmaster,
and a functioning VoIP client in 2.6 (Dreamcall).
>