Re: What is wrong with Applets?
On 09-04-2010 19:24, Roedy Green wrote:
I would like to see JavaScript disappear. My objections are:
1. It is inefficient to use pass around source code.
JavaScript can be compressed quite well. It does not need to
be a problem.
2. the language itself is Mickey Mouse.
It was designed for another purpose than Java.
I can not see a problem with the language for web client
side code.
3. It never works the same way on two different browsers.
Lot of it does.
Code can be written portable or non-portable.
It is very difficult to create a language that prevents
people from writing non-portable code.
> Perhaps it is just the
Sun likes things to be multiplatform and the JavaScript people do not.
Nonsense.
JavaScript is standardized under ECMA & ISO.
Implementations does implement the standard.
Apple is partly the villain there. They have been deliberately
screwing up Java and promoting JavaScript for their iPhone iPad toys.
Apple is pushing Objective-C instead of Java.
Most likely noone at Apple considered Java and JavaScript
to be alternatives.
Arne
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