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<h2 id="origins">Origins</h2> <p>In 1994, a team of Oak/Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the web browser <a href="/facts/Mosaic_browser/qrA52r1E">Mosaic</a>. It was based on the <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> programming language. The name ‘WebRunner’ was a tribute to the <i><a href="/facts/Blade_Runner/Fycnw6Lu">Blade Runner</a></i> movie.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The official Java name was adopted a year later in 1995 when Sun decided to make Oak public and integrate it with the web. </p><p>WebRunner's first public demonstration was given by <a href="/facts/John_Gage/0sVoVF0G">John Gage</a> and <a href="/facts/James_Gosling/AIKS55X9">James Gosling</a> at the <a href="/facts/Technology_Entertainment_Design/Sc3JxnA1">Technology Entertainment Design</a> Conference in <a href="/facts/Monterey%2c_California/ssUz4gN8">Monterey, California</a> in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference. </p><p>The parser code was reused by the standard Java libraries.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="usage">Usage</h2> <p>HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time. </p><p>More critically, HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations of <a href="/facts/Java_virtual_machine/l9Nzrsun">Java virtual machine</a> implementations of the day (both in terms of processing speed and memory consumption) and hence was considerably sluggish.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Computer programming portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_web_browsers/crY3d7co">Comparison of web browsers</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_web_browsers/PbUIvCfp">List of web browsers</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mozilla_Grendel/cfBbHL2s">Mozilla Grendel</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19990202161640/http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/">HotJava Browser</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived February 2, 1999)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961225173659/http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/pub/sun-info/hotjava/">HotJava 1.0 alpha2; first public release</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived December 25, 1996)</li> <li><a href="https://browsers.evolt.org/browsers/archive/hotjava">HotJava @ Evolt</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961104090931/http://www.euroyellowpages.com/exhibitn/javhwhat.html">What is HotJava?</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived November 4, 1996)</li> <li><a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9506.html">History has a Lesson for HotJava</a></li> <li><a href="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/book/chap1/java_hist.html">History of Java</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Watson, Dave (July 21, 2001). "A Quick Look at HotJava". The Southern California OS/2 User Group. Retrieved August 16, 2010. <a href="http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/hotjava.html" target="_blank">http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/hotjava.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Sun Download Center Decommission". oracle.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2011-10-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110806075314/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110806075314/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Byous, Jon (1998). "Java Technology: An Early History" (PDF). Sun Microsystems. Retrieved November 24, 2010. <a href="http://gcc.upb.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/7544f3043ee53927c12573e70058bbb6/abf8d70f07c12eb3c1256de900638899/$FILE/Java%20Technology%20-%20An%20early%20history.pdf" target="_blank">http://gcc.upb.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/7544f3043ee53927c12573e70058bbb6/abf8d70f07c12eb3c1256de900638899/$FILE/Java%20Technology%20-%20An%20early%20history.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"HTMLEditorKit (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)". docs.oracle.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2012-12-31. The default parser is the Hot Java parser <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120109001722/http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120109001722/http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Killelea, Patrick (2002). Web Performance Tuning: Speeding Up the Web. O'Reilly Series (2nd ed.). O'Reilly Media, Incorporated. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-596-00172-8. <a href="978-0-596-00172-8" target="_blank">978-0-596-00172-8</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>