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Re: Applet Question

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On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:34:18 -0600, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Anything close to the above using Javascript? 

I am baffled by the appeal of JavaScript. 

 I find it being used on the web to write code that works with only
one browser.  

I believe it has no sandbox, so it is beloved of websites that want to
install Trojans.

It is passed around in fluffy text form.

It is not OO.

Read up on how you write extensions to browsers, email programs, IDEs
and the like. Instead of using some sane language like Java, they
either concoct some ad hoc monstrosity, or use JavaScript.  What are
they thinking?

Java has one major drawback. The run time takes a long time to load,
so browsers procrastinate. This gives the impression that Java itself
in painfully slow.  Perhaps if it got lazily but most of the time
pre-emptively loaded that problem would go away.

Google uses JavaScript for its ads.  The damn things often take
minutes to load, while the fool browser refuses to get on with
rendering the page.  I have plans in the works to use macros to
temporarily remove them while compose, and insert them at the last
second before upload.  However that does help my visitors any.

I written to Google asking them to implement their ads in a way that
will not hang browsers. They did not respond.


-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and 
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers 
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore 
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper 
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing 
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the 
best remedy.

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Re: Applet Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-06 15:20 -0500
  Re: Applet Question "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-11-06 14:34 -0600
    Re: Applet Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-06 15:41 -0500
      Re: Applet Question Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-07 08:21 -0800
    Re: Applet Question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 02:50 -0800
      Re: Applet Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-07 17:11 -0500
      Re: Applet Question Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 03:25 -0800
  Re: Applet Question "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-11-09 15:23 -0600
    Re: Applet Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-09 20:21 -0500

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