Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:39:43 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: Zw5o5uqbLEcXI8zC1n7kwg.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 NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13286 On 2/15/2012 6:50 AM, Richard Maher wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else gutted that the Chrome browser on Android will not support > JAVA, Flash or any other pluggin? > > I thought Google and Android were big on JAVA? > > Cheers Richard Maher > > I am starting to think that this whole idea of 'running applications in the cloud' will never work as well as running an application on the desktop. If I see the same thing with a choice of an applet or a jar file that I can download first and run on the PC, I now go for the jar file choice. The speed of the internet these days makes downloading things not an issue any more. People now think HTML5/Javascript is the next big thing, where everyone will write their wonderful advanced 20 million lines applications in HTML5 and Javascript. May be for simple games and basic app this will work, but for advanced applications where good and robust performance is important, running things directly on the desktop/computer will always be better than running things inside yet another software application like the browser. Bottom line, it is not a big deal for me not being able to run Java inside the browser as long as I can run the same thing on the PC. It will run better that way. --Nasser