Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Roberts > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:28 PM
<snip/> > On Windows, Java also works great. Deployment is actually much better than > an ActiveX solution - supporting side-by-side deployment, and installation > and upgrading without administrator privilelges. The only difference versus > an ActiveX solution is that the Java Plug-in needs to be installed (although > I am watching the current Microsoft-Sun court case with interest :)) but > this is a one-time only affair and rarely a problem for corporate intranets. > And besides what is the difference between installing a new Java VM versus a > new Visual Basic VM? (most of the ActiveX editors use VB) In fairness, the > initial load-time is also fractionally longer (not much however, we can > still achieve sub-10 second load times). When developing for IE, you do not need to use ActiveX. Our product (livestoryboard.com, schema driven wyiwyg editing/site development) uses *no* plugins or activeX (even for spellcheck). Everything you need is right there in the browser (or handled server-side). Control load time is nonexistent along all the other problems inherent in plugins/activeX. As for the Microst/SUN case, I thought it was settled and that MS won. They do not ship SUN's java anymore. -Rob <snip/> -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
