strictfp doubt?

[pras]

it is said that without the strictfp modifier floating points used in methods behave in platform dependent way..

how come it is true??
because java is platform independent right??

[Campbell Ritchie]

There is more in this article from 2001. The idea of strictfp is to "force" the JVM into giving infinity or 0 as an answer when the values go beyond the normal range of the floating point number.