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Re: Return of the Applets?

From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Return of the Applets?
Date	2015-04-06 07:24 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 04/06/2015 07:05 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 04/05/2015 09:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/5/2015 12:09 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>    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.
>>
>> I know nothing about Chrome and Android apps.
>>
>> But applets are not fixed size.
>>
>> You can resize the applet area from JavaScript and the Java applet
>> can react to resize and do whatever it want to do to accommodate
>> the new size.
>>
>> RWD is possible for JavaScript and Java applet page.
>>
>> I am not so sure that it is practical - in many ways it will be
>> a duplicate of work to keep the two in synch.
>>
>> But I think that is a general problem from trying to do UI in
>> two technologies and not a JavaScript and Java applet specific
>> problem.
>>
> I'm fairly certain your last two paragraphs sum up the gist of
> Stefan Ram's
> "Android apps are now running in the Chrome browser. What does
>    this remind me of?"
> After reading his post I wanted to see what an Android app running
> in the Chrome browser looked like. Without installing the Chrome
> browser of course. I found a Youtube video, and indeed as I expected
> it looked like a phone display. Yes, anything is possible but...
>
Although the visual at the top of the page here:
<http://archon-runtime.github.io/>
shows some promise.

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Re: Return of the Applets? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-04-05 21:34 -0400
  Re: Return of the Applets? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-06 07:05 -0400
    Re: Return of the Applets? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-06 07:24 -0400

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