On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:50:00 -0800, Bryan Sant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 11/15/06, Ross Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just loaded a page (in Firefox) with a relatively simple Java
applet--it
pegged my CPU at 100% for several minutes, froze the browser, and still
failed to successfully load the applet. I had to killall firefox-bin.
That's why I hate Java applets. An applet should *not* cause my browser
to
crash, even if it's a malicious applet, first of all (which this
wasn't).
Second, they should download quickly and open quickly. Preferably with
some sort of notification of how far along they are, like most Flash
does.
Could you send the URL of that applet?
http://cryptio.net/~shane/ssh/sshterm-applet.htm
I tried again now when pasting it to you and it loads successfully rather
than crashing the browser. But it still pegs the CPU at 100% for a good 30
seconds or so. I see absolutely no reason why this should happen. And
although Java-crashing-the-browser doesn't happen every time, it happens
often enough to make it annoying.
~ Ross
p.s. in case you haven't noticed from my other posts, I'm a big Java fan.
99% of the problems with applets are (IMO) on the browser side, not with
Java, so it's not the language that I'm bashing. :-) And they are in fact
solvable, I believe. I think it's theoretically possible to get Java
applets to be as inobtrusive to the web browser (less, even) than Flash,
without changing the language one bit. It's just that nobody seems to have
any interested in making that happen.
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