Applets are going to make a come back, I can feel it in my bones. Have you been polishing your Java skills, /prog/? Because now that flash is dying, HTML5 is never going to be finished, and JS has fallen out of favor, people are going to turn once again to Java to save them, and to decorate their websites with interactive media.
>>2
and i wish for that too, but that's not the point
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Anonymous2013-08-24 22:42
If only the JVM could be made to load faster, Java applets wouldn't have been relegated so. As it is, they are unusable, a mere historical curiosity, and another example of how Sun squandered its assets.
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Anonymous2013-08-24 22:44
I'd rather write code for ActiveX and IE6, honestly, and I'd only do that to stave off starvation.
>>1
A funny thing: I really liked working with Silverlight. All the stuff you normally can't do in the browser was (kind of) possible. It was a shitty option, but it was less shitty than all the others.
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Anonymous2013-08-25 1:11
In 5 years JavaScript will replace most of niche proprietary plugins. Web developers have been abandoning the plugins by the droves and the legacy stuff is what keep the plugins alive.
>>1
I hope that it would have been Scheme, but LuaJit seems to be picking up in the market. But know with LLVM being complete, anyone can adapt their own.
>>4
I am not so sure what you mean, JVM loads scripts and bytecode just fine.
>>7
Stop making me cry. Why don't we a global petition to ban ECMAScript, and start writing malware to prove to the world that they should not be technically irresponsibility?
>>8
``Just fine'' for an application that's run on a server and is started only occasionally, maybe. Not for a plugin which is supposed to be launched on every other web page and causes CPU to spike, hogs your disk bandwidth and causes your browser to freeze.
Java applets were a good idea, executed atrociously.
>>9
Then that person should not be using the web. Programs should be separate from pages, as style sheets are separate from audio files. The user should be using a separate environment to run any executable code they want, and a VM provides the perfect solution. Any JVM can provide that.
Who you are directing that to is the improper site designer, and accepting users. E.g.: >>5-7
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Anonymous2013-08-25 19:05
>>10
That's precisely what Java applets where, you imbecile, and the reasons of their downfall are well known. Now, let me see you defending Swing's stagnation.
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Anonymous2013-08-27 2:29
>>10 style sheets are separate from audio files Breaking News: W3C Announces Merger Of Theora And CSS For HTML5 Named ``Cascading Ogg Codec and Knottable Stylesheets'' - Google, Mozilla, Nokia to lead patent pool
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