Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: The End is Nigh Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:45:50 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <6kqkk91s6fjg449puqci6mf68i0v8js6dr@4ax.com> <20hmk9p2v0d26v069a6jpttr9vdpa5h37b@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28095 On 4/14/2014 10:13 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 03:52:55 -0700, Roedy Green > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > >> I have written an SSCCE and discovered that getApplets fails when >> there are 12 or more instances on a page, at least in the Firefox >> browser on Windows 7 64 bit. > > For Firefox, Opera and IE it fails on 12+ instances. > For Chrome it fails on 13+ instances > You should be more worried about Chrome not working with NPAPI next month (should've been this month but received a stay of execution). Google has taken Larry out in the street and bitch-slapped him in front of everyone and he's just taking it :-( This is a deliberate calculated malicious attack on Java's longevity and worst of all it is clearly gratuitous from any technical viewpoint. But with demonstrable dickheads calling the shots at Oracle Applet engineering and this newsgroup full of numpties getting their jollies over lambdas what do you expect?