Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:26:58 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-95-178.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1306110418 5401 118.92.95.178 (23 May 2011 00:26:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 00:26:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.7 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4425 In message , Steve Sobol wrote: > In article , Tom > Anderson says... >> >> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >> >> > 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. >> >> http://bellard.org/jslinux/ >> >> tom > > Yeah, you can now run Linux in a Javascript interpreter, but that is an > extremely recent development made possible by the turbo-charged > Javascript interpreters now available in the modern browsers. Ah, so you noticed the “modern” part of all this new-fangled technology. > And honestly, I agree that Java applets can do *a lot* more. Soon as you figure out how to apply the word “modern” to Java, I guess... Why do you think JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX has grown by leaps and bounds, while Java, which in some ways was a pioneer of the dynamic Web, has stagnated?