Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: applets Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:08:41 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net t2RdOVy56ab6DIeOHE2rqUP64FiWXRt118+2gETuX/LpiyC1mdpsylwI5xN+vUXSPELCB7o46+Wzk6D5hwsDH+OgRDXP2q8rQtfwkUCBtarXd+3STv84dvce4BAmIAbC NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="HNvSs7HKzOODMJuXpVqPJF8SGT5XF0dz0g+jA9kv20vROcFp1gw+rHSdlHulMBo/oy4YsnBr7sKAy/OnJ6oPOCr0Z7aaykzCZm//5K8udisbRxuIYRlVdF4Tb8TkDSiV"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:giOTgDSIEFzNCrioaFzRBwegiFI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15272 Roedy Green wrote: > bob smith wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> Do any serious Java developers still work on applets? Or are they pretty much dead? > > The advantage is people can play with them without any commitment to > install. They require no skill to use. You just start clicking. You > would be amazed how many people who call themselves Java programmers > cannot unzip a jar and run it. Or run it without unzipping it. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg