>>> "Rob Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-Oct-00 11:14:25 PM
>>>
>Being an applet author I just have to buy in here:
Yes - I thought that would provoke someone /8-)
>> The distributed web architecture *is* better. It's faster, more
>> flexible (accepting the obvious UI restraints) and easier to
build.
>The obvious UI restraints make some HTML based apps really
>painful. Take the JRun administrator, in 2.3 it was an applet, in
3.0 its
>all HTML based. I my opinion a big step backwards, from a UI point
>of view. Or Microsoft's Developer Network. It had an applet that
>showed a tree view of the documentation, now it's HTML based. So
>when you select a topic and then return to the tree you have lost
your
>place in the tree, and are back at the top, whereas the applet
>remembered your place. Is this an advance?
Applets can be usefull to develop UI components for HTML pages which
you then use JS to script. But that kind of architecture is not really
what's being talked about.
I wouldn't advocate use of any "live" link between an applet and the
server coz that's reliant on client-server thought.
I hope that browsers will soon support more sophisticated UI (I'm
working on something that will do that... wanna help?).
Nic
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