Re: tools for programming applets
On 05/22/2011 08:59 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
On 05/22/2011 08:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Why do you think JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX has grown by leaps and bounds, while
Java, which in some ways was a pioneer of the dynamic Web, has stagnated?
Why do you insist on bashing Java in a Java newsgroup?
To be fair, none of the technologies you mention has really made "leaps and
bounds". AJAX, or rather XHR (the underlying technology), itself was specified
several years back and hasn't been modified (to my knowledge) since the
introduction of the cross-origin specifications, which is more or less
incidental to the actual spec. JavaScript itself has had no more fundamental
changes than Java has had. As far as I can see, the only truly new things
(i.e., not present in any implementation for some time) were the introduction
of functional methods to Array, i.e., arr.forEach, arr.filter, etc.
The only technologies that have really changed are the DOM, in particular the
introduction of <canvas>, web storage, and ... I think that's about the only
major interoperable new thing. SVG doesn't count since it's been around for
eons, nor does <video> since it's actually worthless as no single format will
be accepted by >75% of the browser market. I'll also leave out CSS changes,
since most of those are pretty much either pie-in-the-sky experiments or
attempting to sanely specify what browsers already do.
Now, let me end by pointing out that Java has been able to do all of these
things for over a decade. That's right, all of these growing "by leaps and
bounds" is merely trying to get CSS/DOM/HTML up to the same level of support
that Java has already had since version 1.0. And there are still things that
Java can do that this approach is having problems with--case in point number
1, designing traditional UI (i.e., flexing models for layout). Java doesn't
need to grow by leaps and bounds because it already is a mature, working
facility ... unlike the current Web 2.0/3.0 stuff.
To use Lawrence's logic, we should hire him instead of you because your
knowledge is mature and stable, and not growing as quickly as his presumably
is at his stage of development as a programmer. Or, alternatively, we should
elect an infant as the nation's leader because their brain is growing so much
faster than a mature adult's.
This leaving out the fallacy that Java has stagnated, a blazingly false
assertion that Lawrence made with, as is usual for Lawrence, absolutely zero
evidence cited (as if there were any) or reasoning proffered.
So, Lawrence, care to provide any actual factual or evidentiary basis for your
apparent attempt to foment a flame war, Lawrence? We're waiting breathlessly,
Lawrence.
Aaaany time now, Lawrence.
--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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