Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:15:55 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: TUXTYYqX1yG7hs3zxUg7ng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4392 On 5/20/2011 2:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > 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. I find the above really strange, since when I look around on the net, I see nothing even close to what can be done today using Java applets. And Java is open source now also. isn't? If you can show me just ONE web site, with simulations and animation written in Javascript and html5, that are as good and advanced as say the following well known Java applets sites, then I will believe you: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html http://www.myphysicslab.com/index.html http://www.ph.biu.ac.il/~rapaport/java-apps/ And thousands more. All what I have seen so far for demos written in Javascript and HTML5 are child like little toy applications compared to what can be done with Java applets, today. And Java applets now run well, not like many years ago, when, yes, they did have performance issues, but it seems to me most of this is fixed now, I hardly have a problem now running a Java applet these days. Sometimes I get missing class error while loading, but that seems to be a packaging/configuration error from the author, not Java itself. Why the industry have to reinvent the wheel again every few years, I never know. Why not improve what works today to make it better? --Nasser