Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jerry Stuckle Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Return of the Applets? Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 09:46:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 13:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5dfcaf843262377062d568c34777fa3"; logging-data="519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hWTHDjZwFOAlf0tDtVnMl2oA7hzf0ixQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ObhC6vmOAwSEh2ShHGo7NcdulHc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31465 On 4/5/2015 12:09 AM, 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. > You're mixing apples and oranges. Java is NOT JavaScript - or vice versa. They are two different languages with two different purposes. The ONLY thing they have in common are the letters "J", "v" and two "a"s. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry Stuckle jstucklex@attglobal.net ==================