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From: "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: tools for programming applets
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 08:56:03 +0800
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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in message 
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> In message
> <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>,
> horos22 wrote:
>
>> I was looking to do some quick java development of applets.
>
> Nobody uses applets any more. Go learn about DHTML, AJAX and HTML5.

Yes, learn about the piece of shit that is "WebSockets" and how they're 
still disabled due to security (let alone prohibitively reduced 
functionality) flaws! Marvel at what "WorkerThreads" attempt to accomplish! 
Look on in awe at Comet and long-polling and the amount of time/money 
invested in trying to replicate what Applets have offered the Web-Developer 
for over a decade :-(

Yes my little Google/Microsoft slaves, "all pluggins are bad". They've 
kiiled Java and are now doing their best to kill Flash. Just keep settling 
for second rate shite just as long as there's no pluggin required. (Having 
said that, with Oracle's ownership of Java and having seen what Ellison just 
did to HP/Itanium, there are certainly no benign let alone benevolent forces 
pulling the levers.)

Regards Richard Maher