Received: by 10.66.81.170 with SMTP id b10mr3004458pay.31.1355167224664; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.91.230 with SMTP id ch6mr3040385igb.9.1355167224429; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:20:24 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!kr7no8419158pbb.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni32536pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kt20no9456437pbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:20:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50c6153d$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <50c1ef83$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50c6153d$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9c20aadc-eb9a-461d-9fa6-8bcecd2874b1@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: AWT or Swing or Any other ? From: Lew Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:20:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20221 Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > Roedy Green wrote: >> Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >>> JavaFX is newer and flashier (pun intended). Arne is right to suggest >=20 >> Read my experiences. It simply did not work. see >> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javafx.html "Simply did not work" is not a very deep investigation. >> It was not that long ago. In geological terms?=20 Which version did you try? When was this? What did you do exactly? > Since the page talks about JavaFX Script, then it is obsolete. "8. Does JavaFX 2 support JavaFX Script? Starting with JavaFX 2.0, JavaFX Script is no longer supported. " http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/overview/faq-1446554.html#3 >> Further it has quite limited browser support. >=20 > Browsers do not have to support JavaFX at all. Browsers support > a Java plugin. And then it is up to the Java plugin. There is a page that lists what's certified to be supported: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/supportedconfigurat= ions-1506746.html The only notable exceptions are Chrome on Mac and Internet Explorer on non-= Windows platforms.=20 > And applets are so much out of fashion anyway, that most likely > JavaFX will be more used for desktop apps than for applets. Most of the JavaFX documentation focuses on that use case. >> It is one more package the user has to install. >=20 > No. > The JavaFX 2.0 runtime is now in the standard Java distrubution > (only in Oracle, but when talking about non-server usage, then > that is by far the most common). >=20 >> I was unable to get >> one developer who wanted a mirror copy of my website to install Java >> to deliver it to him. He was terrified of it. Yes, one developer's pathological phobia is sufficient evidence for a world= wide policy. He needs a psychiatrist, not an engineer. > Maybe he was misinformed by someone. > :-) Or maybe he's a psycho. --=20 Lew