Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Applet Question Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:50:01 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <4eb6ec06$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9734 On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:34:18 -0600, "Nasser M. Abbasi" 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.