On June 30, Netscape Vice President Marc Andreessen made it clear that development of “Javagator” — the company’s much-ballyhooed all-Java version of its flagship Web browser — was over.

To disable Java on Internet Explorer you can use the Add-ons manager to disable Java(tm) Plug-in 2 SSV Helper and Sun Microsystems Deployment Toolkit. But this does not actually suffice.

Sorry to be doubly redundant, but it is amazing how many people, including industry insiders, don’t understand the difference between Java and JavaScript. Here’s the low-down. Java, dev… ...