Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: applets Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:30:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zckhMTG1LjiDagbj0FoxqA"; logging-data="8341"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hBHagUW6pZC+qWQk5nN0+wrDiNXCvoGA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y1ZtFvwvrJzMYqOJ3+g1ckFBd4c= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15246 On 6/13/2012 7:54 AM, bob smith wrote: > Do any serious Java developers still work on applets? Or are they > pretty much dead? I like Knute's answer. Applets seem to be used occasionally, where nothing else will do. However it seems to me the deployment to users mechanism is still kinda clunky, and therefore applets tend to be avoided. Applets are still heavyweight relative to alternatives like Flash, HTML5 and JavaScript. They boot more slowly, and therefore are perceived to provide a lesser user experience.