On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:15:55AM -0400, Bruce Miller wrote:
> Joi Ellis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> >
> > > They are going to say why isn't the Linux jre compatible with the
> > > windows version?
> >
> > No JRE in the world can compensate for lazy programmers.
>
> Agreed! And yet....
>
> Although I dont have a better solution at hand, IMHO a lot of
> AWT (& Swing inherits enough of this) represents an opportunity
> missed.
The AWT seemed like a good idea at the time, but it has aged poorly.
Even the most careful programmers have a hard time designing an app or
applet that looks decent in all environments. And the two toolkits
in this case - the Windows GUI and Motif - are so different that the
problem is a nightmare for a Java GUI of any complexity. Add a couple of
other problems - the lowest-common-denominator capabilities of the AWT,
and the requirement that applet tags specify fixed pixel dimensions -
and you see that applet programmers have been hobbled from the beginning.
It's not about being lazy, it's about being screwed.
The stupid and ruinous food fight between Sun and Microsoft pretty much
destroyed client-side Java for generations of developers and users. Swing
is a good toolkit, but it's also a squandered opportunity thanks to the
Java wars. We can rant all we want about the "lazy" programmers publishing
applets, but they're just trying to make the best of a bad situation
they didn't create. The problem is much deeper and harder to solve.
Nathan
----------------------------------------------------------------------
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
