I did not read all the e-mails in this long thread, and I'm probably somewhat late to answer. But since people are/were talking about electron (or other replacements for Swing/AWT/JavaFX), let's give a look at this and not commit the same mistakes: https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
2018-03-18 17:15 GMT-03:00 Kirk Pepperdine <[email protected]>: > > > On Mar 18, 2018, at 2:57 PM, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Kirk, > > > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 at 08:12 Kirk Pepperdine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> There are entire classes of applications that cannot be easily managed > in > >> HTML today. HTML/JS simply doesn’t scale in it’s current incantation. > >> Without Swing/FX there are no good alternatives in Java. > >> > > > > This reminds me of a conversation we were having last summer. > > Indeed, it’s a conversation that continues... > > With > > respect, I think there's still some misunderstanding of the proposed > > approach. > > I use HTML in Java UI’s and it works very well when used appropriately. > For other cases, including the management of large data sets, Swing/FX > offer better solutions at least for now. A large part of the problem is the > translation of the data set to HTML as sometimes it’s difficult to know > what is immediately needed. > > — Kirk > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
