According to posts in webtv.users from Steve Perlman, ex-president of WebTV, WebTV has been working to provide a form of Personal Java for the WebTV Plus terminal (and possibly the new Classics and Dishplayer, but nothing was said specifically about them as they were not announced products at the time of the posts)?there is no guarantee this will happen. For the full text of Steve's posts, click here.

The Java Sound API specifies mechanisms for capturing, processing, and playing back audio and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data in a framework that promotes extensibility and flexibility. Sun's reference implementation for the Java Sound API, also known as the Java Sound engine, is a 64 channel audio rendering and MIDI controlled sound synthesis engine which offers reliable, high quality sound on all Java 2 Platforms.

Java-Script is a client-side scripting language that can be embedded within a web page. Java-script is used to create dynamic web pages or to provide functions to the web browser that don't normally exist.

The User Interface Software Group first created a tool called Garnet in Lisp in 1988, and then in Summer of 1994 started working on Amulet. It took about a calendar year, and over 4 man-years of work to create Amulet, without much research contributions. Therefore, we are reticient to start yet another conversion. Java and C++ are enough different that we feel we would want to do a redesign and not just a transliteration.

As part of JFC, the Accessibility API enables Java applications to work with alternate input and output devices such as Screen Readers, Screen Magnifiers, Braille terminals, and others. The Accessibility API takes the current Java system that is visually oriented and extends it to be usable by people who need to work with other non-visual devices. We are truly taking "Write Once, Run Anywhere" to another level by extending the benefits of Java Computing to users with disabilities.

Ans: Yes, we can... but we should caution you that there are still a lot of old browsers out there that are not Java-enabled. Older AOL browsers, for example, have a devil of a time with Java. We are frankly looking forward to the time when the whole web is fully utilizing the interactive capabilities of the platform-independent language and world of Java. Ans: We have an excellent form script in our CGI Bin, written in perl.

Anyone who is interested in adding sound capabilities into their Java applets and applications will benefit from the Java Sound API. Java Sound will enable a wide variety of markets, such as education, advertising and telecommunications, to take advantage of its high quality audio to make communication more effective and accessible.

Java Sound allows consistent, reliable, high-quality audio on all Java-enabled platforms. Developers have the assurance their audio content will sound great across all platforms, with the only requirement being a simple digital to audio converter (DAC). Java Sound uses only a small amount of a system's CPU to process sound files. For example: a 24-voice MIDI file uses only 20% of the CPU on a Pentium 90 MHz system.

Java-Script was developed by Netscape in the early days of the browser wars. Microsoft responded by developing JScript. The language was standardized as ECMA-262 in 1998. Today, JScript is more commonly used in Active Server Pages as an alternative to VBScript. Web hosting is your space on a web server in which all your files for your website are stored.

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