Did I quote Gladwell anywhere? I made reference to a premise of his book. Having a gut reaction to something, without being able to explain how you reached that conclusion, and yet still being 'correct', is something that many people deal with all the time. I think there's a lot of that going on with JavaFX - people not quite being able to explain *what* is wrong with it, they just know it's not likely to succeed, may or may not be more than just armchair punditry. I tend to think it is, but time will tell.
The fact that Sun can not or will not put out its own version of Java for Macs is a whole other topic which I've brought up before, and I still think is a basic problem for a company wanting to provide a common and unified environment for developers and end users. "Software update" on my mac doesn't show any new Java updates, and I can't run JavaFX on my Linux box yet either. When Flash runs it can tell me that it needs a minimum version of its runtime. I may be splitting hairs here, but couldn't the JavaFX demos detect my version of Java and tell me that I should upgrade to a newer version for a better experience? Call it a yarn, or unscientific, or my 'blink' reaction, but if a multi billion dollar company can not get its own cross-platform platform to run properly on multiple platforms after years of effort, it just feels like it's not going to make it. Not that I don't want to see it succeed, but as a sideline observer, there's not much I can do to help the cause. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: > > Summary of OP: > > I looked at it, it sucked. I won't tell you why; instead I'll just > whinge, because I'm a non-contributing zero. > > Ed, post some constructive criticism, or go away. > > NB: Michael, Gladwell is a gifted author, a real yarnspinner, but you > shouldn't quote him with the presumption that his delusional ranting > has any basis in fact, at least, not in polite company. However, in > the vein of completing the argument in a proposed faulty logic frame > being just as effective as proving the logic is false in the first > place: People who have actually used JavaFX almost never complain. If > you follow the posse, or read anything about java at all, you'd know > that the update to get is 6u10, which you didn't have. No wonder stuff > isn't working quite as well as it should; the fact that it does work > in the first place is a small miracle. > > > Joshua, do you know when apple will roll out something with the > flavour of 6u10 across all macs? My mac is still on 1.6.0_07-b06-153. > Could be because I've been downloading releases from > developer.apple.com. -- Michael Kimsal http://jsmag.com - for javascript developers http://groovymag.com - for groovy developers 919.827.4724 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
