Re: What is wrong with Applets?

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Date:

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:53:30 -0700

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On 4/9/2010 6:46 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

Joshua Cranmer<Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> writes:

Java applets will typically be using default Swing or AWT
settings, so they really stick out if they have anything hinting at UI.

   By default, but they also could be hidden and modify the DOM:

       ?Through either the JavaScript DOM APIs or the
       Java Common DOM APIs, the Java applet can modify
       the web page dynamically?

https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/liveconnect/

True, but I have personally experienced issues (freezing, strange
behavior, etc...) with multi-threaded applets that rely on that
functionality (even when doing appropriate synchronizing and using the
DOM dispatcher thread).

Not to mention the JSObject interface is very buggy. There are
work-arounds, but none as good as I'd like.

I wrote about such a work-around here:

<http://virtualinfinity.net/wordpress/tools/2008/10/11/javascript-and-java-applets/>

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