On Nov 24, 1:12 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > I came, I listened, I disagreed. > > I do agree that realistically the likelihood of an agreement on a byte- > code standard is unlikely. I disagree with the assertion that > JavaScripts innovation would be hugely constrained if a byte-code > system was used. Using Flash as an example may be unfair given that I > think Adobe is probably much less skilled with such things as byte- > code and VMs compared to those working on the JVM and CLR. > > Browsers are great at promising lots and grand ideas and statements > with mediocre realities though in fairness so far a lot of this has > been IE holding the browser world back (which hopefully may change in > IE9).
I don't disagree. Just want to add that we *do* have Microsoft to thank for XMLHttpRequest which is almost the very definition of the current web (which is only now really moving forward to websockets etc. i.e. http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/). -- 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.
