Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:40:47PM -0800, Man Chi Ly wrote: > Sun lost the client-side battle years ago, perhaps primarily due to the > fact that Swing was not performance-competitive w/ native Windows apps... > > The reality is that as small a market Java client apps currently are, > the marke

Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread Man Chi Ly
Nathan Meyers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:21:33PM +, jordan muscott wrote: > >>I've just noticed bug 4498974 on the Sun website. Im totally shocked about >>this. It was my understanding (please correct me if i am wrong), that the >>promised increase in performance with Swing was

Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:21:46PM +, jordan muscott wrote: > On Tuesday 01 January 2002 20:29, Nathan Meyers wrote: > >VolatileImage is a client-side technology, and Sun is trying to regain > >the client-side foothold it lost by "winning" its lawsuit against > >Microsoft. > > Thanks for r

Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread jordan muscott
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 20:29, Nathan Meyers wrote: >VolatileImage is a client-side technology, and Sun is trying to regain >the client-side foothold it lost by "winning" its lawsuit against >Microsoft. In the battle for the desktop, winning Windows developers >with faster graphics is way m

Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread jordan muscott
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 20:29, Nathan Meyers wrote: >VolatileImage is a client-side technology, and Sun is trying to regain >the client-side foothold it lost by "winning" its lawsuit against >Microsoft. In the battle for the desktop, winning Windows developers >with faster graphics is way m

Re: Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:21:33PM +, jordan muscott wrote: > I've just noticed bug 4498974 on the Sun website. Im totally shocked about > this. It was my understanding (please correct me if i am wrong), that the > promised increase in performance with Swing was based around the use of > Vo

Sun bug 4498974

2002-01-01 Thread jordan muscott
I've just noticed bug 4498974 on the Sun website. Im totally shocked about this. It was my understanding (please correct me if i am wrong), that the promised increase in performance with Swing was based around the use of VolatileImage. Personally, i am interested in using Java for game develop