Yup, that's one of the few use cases where you're indeed affected (a lot!) by this news. However, instead of dancing Steve Jobs' jig, why not just turn it into a webapp? Java / Applets aren't really known for their media preview abilities anyway - what can you preview in applets/ jws which can't be delivered in a fashion that works on a modern browser such as safari, firefox, or chrome, one of which you're pretty much guaranteed to be running on when your site is being viewed on a mac.
On Oct 28, 5:17 pm, Craig Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 8:53 am, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't believe Swing is used as infrequently as you seem to imply. I > > see it used quite often for applications developed to be run inside a > > single company. I have developed many such applications and two of > > them were written this year. They are in active production use and > > have many planned enhancements. > > > I don't think it makes sense to turn every GUI into a web-based one. > > Some are even both. > > Another anecdotal Swing story: Our company has a JNLP application > built on top of JMF that allows users of any platform to preview media > files served up via a servlet -- that is, every platform apart from > OSX 10.7. I can't imagine asking a user to install XCode for X11 and > then install OpenJDK just to preview media. We'll have to create a > Mac application, written in Objective C -- which is just what Jobs > wants us to do... > > -Craig -- 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.
