Re: My new toy
On Aug 30, 12:50 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:58:19 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Thompson
<andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :
index programming examples.
....
Just so you could find a coding example that used some method, package
or class.
JavaHelp. It can be provided 'behind the scenes'
on a Java enabled server - that would mean the output
to the user is available as pure HTML - no applets
or other such nonsense required.
BTW - liked your idea of pulling the code formatter
out of an applet and doing it on the server side. I
had been considering doing similar as the potential
'first use' of active scripting on my own site (which
is otherwise pure HTML).
Pure HTML rendered source has some major advantages
1) The pure HTML will be indexed by search engines,
whereas the 'applet wrapped' code will not.
2) Copy/pasting from a web page is more intuitive for
most people.
3) Applet start-up time is (still) irritating to me.
4) Is available on PCs with no Java.
That last one might be seen as 'tongue-in-cheek' but
for my part, there have been times in the last year
where my only internet access was via machines I
could borrow, and many of them lacked Java.
--
Andrew T.
pscode.org