this is probably a little touchy to ask...

[Achilleas Mantzios]

Στις Friday 10 September 2010 16:46:57 ο/η Randal L. Schwartz έγραψε:
> >>>>> "Jules" == Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Jules> Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
> Jules> developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
> Jules> say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
> Jules> browser.
> 
> And that's why I challenged you as to "why".  We needed Java to run in
> the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets.  But with
> HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, "why Java"?
> 

Because tones of app(let)s were written on this technology, and those running them cannot afford rewriting them.
its easier to just fix the plugin than rewrite every applet on earth using javascript.

PS
i have news from the front.
The exact successful applets tested on my 8.1-RELEASE amd64 are successful in Ubuntu i386 as well,
and the failing ones, fail on Ubuntu as well.

> Java had its day.  Time to move on.
> 



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Achilleas Mantzios