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Re: Return of the Applets?

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In article <Applets-20150405060326@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

>   Android apps are now running in the Chrome browser. What does
>   this remind me of?
> 
>   Let me remind you that Android apps are written in Java,
>   kind of, not Java SE, and, IIRC, not Java 8. But a kind of Java.
> 
>   Then, the browser must contain an emulator that runs Linux
>   where an app runs as a separate user with restricted rights
>   and within a sandbox. The security here might be better than
>   the security of the JVM, because the walls seem to be thicker.
> 
>   But the advantage of JavaScript is that it can interact with
>   a web page of flexible size, while both applets and apps run
>   in a rectangle of a fixed size, which does not blend in well
>   with responsive web design.

Applets died because their API and packaging is a complete wreck.  
Plugin and Applet developers can only guess how it should work, and the 
guesses are notē compatible with each other.  Applets still don't work - 
not even today.

JavaScript does just about everything that Java Applets were meant to 
do.  The only problems I've seen are that JS engines have no way of 
reliably optimizing arrays and there are no 64 bit numerics.  It makes 
number and pixel crunching difficult.  (Java sucks at arrays of objects 
but arrays of primitives work well.)

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Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-06 21:31 -0700
  Re: Return of the Applets? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-04-07 20:22 +0200
    Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-08 22:17 -0700
      Re: Return of the Applets? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-04-10 17:11 +0200
  Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-08 22:22 -0700

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