Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:58:04 +0300 From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... Message-ID: <201009101658.04567.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> In-Reply-To: <86sk1hk8xa.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <AANLkTi=7sTm12NUdAeRrX1ZUsSveS9k7dk=hc%2BgWV9jK@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinmfMdYUpNGKCCAX1cE7pZJDFC07BoRsQ9XxhsA@mail.gmail.com> <86sk1hk8xa.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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=CE=A3=CF=84=CE=B9=CF=82 Friday 10 September 2010 16:46:57 =CE=BF/=CE=B7 Ra= ndal L. Schwartz =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5: > >>>>> "Jules" =3D=3D Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com> writes: >=20 > Jules> Look, I'm just a user. I'm not a Java developer, not a language > Jules> developer, not a run-time specialist. But folks, we got problems!= I > Jules> say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a > Jules> browser. >=20 > And that's why I challenged you as to "why". We needed Java to run in > the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets. But with > HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, "why Java"? >=20 Because tones of app(let)s were written on this technology, and those runni= ng them cannot afford rewriting them. its easier to just fix the plugin than rewrite every applet on earth using = javascript. PS i have news from the front. The exact successful applets tested on my 8.1-RELEASE amd64 are successful = in Ubuntu i386 as well, and the failing ones, fail on Ubuntu as well. > Java had its day. Time to move on. >=20 =2D-=20 Achilleas Mantzios
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