Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!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 17:28:11 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 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=UTF-8; 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:13288 On 4/1/2012 3:50 PM, Thufir wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:39:43 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > > >> 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. > > You're assuming everyone has stable, non-infected pc's. The whole point > of the cloud, I guess I used the wrong word. I did not mean to run things on the server vs. on the desktop/pc. I meant to run things in a browser vs. on the desktop/pc. But I thought this was clear even though I used the word 'cloud' when may be I should have used RIA (rich internet applications). After all, I was talking about applets and HTML5 and Javascript all the time? These run in the browser, not on the server. >insofar as I can tell, to avoid annoying support calls > which end in either "reboot" or "re-install". > If the PC is 'bad', then applets/HTML5/javaScript/Flash/ pick_your_Browserplugins/ etc.. will also run bad. After all, the browser runs on the PC as well. > The beauty of AJAX, etc, is in terms of support. It's a complex way of > getting away from Windows, to which people will go to extraordinary > lengths. > > -Thufir So, You want to run say, photoshop application, on the server using AJAX so to get away from the PC? Do you think it will work as good as running it on the PC? I like my PC, and I do not want to get away from it. --Nasser