On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:00 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > > I know that Java 7 is getting a lot of Applet/JApplet attention, so > > I'm sure they'll improve things beyond where they are today. But most > > of the things you're asking for are either outside of the control of > > Java, or exist in the JRE today. > > Correct, but nonetheless these are major obstacles to overcome before > developers will feel comfortable about developing Java applets. With > Sun's Java going GPL, it seems like the chance of solving the problems > is higher than before.
Unfortunately 90% of the world is only running the ancient MS version of the JRE embedded in IE. Getting Java 7 out to the world will be harder as it will require a download of the JRE. Of course with IE 7 and Vista, there is no default JVM, so I guess you'd have to get users to download and install the plugin anyway. I guess the thing about flash is that it's a very simple, one-click install that's not very big, compared to Java with is around 10 MB I think. That will make a difference as to whether users will want to wait out a plugin download just to view something on a site. Studies recently showed that if a page takes more than 4 seconds to display, users lose interest and move on. Michael > > Shane > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
