Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zaHVhIENyYW5tZXIg8J+Qpw==?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:03:44 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <53ba5a2c$0$2846$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53ba6e3e$0$2967$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53bc492a$0$2862$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 20:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8cedddb29338592f734c41b16a68fadc"; logging-data="11933"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gZFxn//LGZL5jdSygFqUFgZ23hoW2YOo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: <53bc492a$0$2862$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Cancel-Lock: sha1:bBY1AldXW6Nn9qR0FGTypL3BN+4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29011 On 7/8/2014 2:40 PM, Silvio wrote: > On 07/08/2014 04:00 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: >> On 7/8/2014 5:01 AM, thinbluernime wrote: >>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:54:05 +0200, Silvio wrote: >>> >>>> Nobody is saying that it is not very (technically) convenient for the >>>> software developer to have a complete Java stack available inside the >>>> users browser. It's just not going to happen anymore with the world >>>> moving to tablets, smart-phones and ultimately the IoT. >>> >>> IoT? What the fuck is IoT? >> >> This is unnecessarily cruel of me, but.... >> >> Intestines of Toluene >> Interstate of Trucks >> Itinerary of Toads >> Ignominy of Theologians >> >> ... >> >> Okay, now I'm going to be stuck mentally replacing all discussions of >> internet of things with intestines of toluene. >> > > Involuntary obesity treatment. > > There, I said it. But aren't lowercase letters in acronyms reserved for words that would not be upper-cased in titles? -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth