Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:21:00 +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: <201009131221.00549.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> In-Reply-To: <20100910222331.GA29252@rix.kiwi-computer.com> References: <AANLkTi=7sTm12NUdAeRrX1ZUsSveS9k7dk=hc%2BgWV9jK@mail.gmail.com> <201009101658.04567.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <20100910222331.GA29252@rix.kiwi-computer.com>
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Στις Saturday 11 September 2010 01:23:31 ο/η Rick C. Petty έγραψε: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:58:04PM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > > > > Because tones of app(let)s were written on this technology, and those running them cannot afford rewriting them. > > its easier to just fix the plugin than rewrite every applet on earth using javascript. > > Javascript doesn't provide everything that Java does, for example: threads, > socket connections, audio, file system access, native integration, etc. > Also although some implementations of javascript are quite fast, Java still > outperforms them for most operations. Also, DOM manipulation is terribly > slow compared to Swing even. > You are correct. If someone is coming from a certain technological world, he can tolerate the many drawbacks of javascript. If he is coming from Unix/academics/open-computing world then it is hard to live up with the perception of quality in javascript. > Someone else wrote: > > > > Java had its day. Time to move on. > > HTML5 can't do many of those things either. Flash at least gives you > all of that except native integrations (which is unimportant for browsers). > Flash and Java won't go away until all of those problems are solved by > other means. HTML5 is *not* the final solution for the web by any means. > Although, I'd take h.264 support any day over applets. =) > > -- Rick C. Petty > -- Achilleas Mantzioshelp
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