Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Signing an applet Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 08:35:22 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <52adc266$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <52b0d986$0$298$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27004 On 12/18/2013 7:08 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 8< > > I don't think Oracle is really changing anything regarding applets. In order to cater for the inadequacies and introduced vulnerabilities of WebStart and JNLP Oracle have knee-jerked their way into destroying the sandboxed paradigm and made Applets almost impossible to activate without reciting some incantation while waving a dead chicken over your head :-( For example: - https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/liveconnect_changes_in_7u45 > Applets has not been mainstream for more than a decade. Unless your eyes are open and can see websockets and worker-threads are a joke and you have an appreciation of the power of Java on the client. > > And JavaScript does not care. It is already 10000 more widely used > than Java applets. Cheese definitely is used a lot more than chalk. Or "Why use a screw-driver when you have a perfectly good hammer?" > > Arne Cheers Richard Maher. BTW. I think the interesting one to watch will be Chrome's threatened removal of the NPAPI in 2014. http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html Google, Apple, and Microsoft know how powerful the Java plugin is. Just a shame Oracle doesn't. > >