it goes back to the write once run anywhere thing - it wasn't just run anywhere it was run and look EXACTLY the same everywhere. Which makes sense for about 10 minutes until you walk outside and go "wait... do we really want that?" - that last thought never happened to a lot of people.
On Jul 21, 8:53 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the AWT/Swing approach was flawed from the start.. "lets avoid > some problems by doing it all ourselves.. and inheriting a squillion > more". As mentioned in the SWT interview, "if the native platform > gets a feature, you just inherit it". I think it's one of the reasons > Java on the Desktop never took off. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
