Poll: Are you maintaining any java applets?
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- Yes
- Not Anymore.
- Are you crazy?
- Other
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Filed under: Java Applets are the future of web programming. - Scott McNealy
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Not just maintaining, but now building a new one.
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Behold. The only java applets worth a damn.
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I especially like the fact that you anticipated "Are you crazy?" being one of the answers.
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I learned things from there.
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I especially like the fact that you anticipated "Are you crazy?" being one of the answers.
I am nothing but visionary. Unfortunate, most people see my vision after it has happened.
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Yes we are, and we hate them.
It was a triumph of "but we can built it much more quickly with Java than Dojo" over shouts of "are you sure?" and "but we'll be stuck with it for years!"
And lo, it came to pass. Eight years we've been maintaining these monstrosities. Current estimate is end of next year before we can replace them
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Behold. The only java applets worth a damn.
It would be moderately interesting to rewrite them in Javascript and the HTML5 canvas. You can do quite nice things with that (and it's only a completely retarded way to do high-speed graphics; another 5
from the W3C!)
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It would be moderately interesting to rewrite them in Javascript and the HTML5 canvas.
I don't know. Do you think HTML5canvas has more longevity than Java?
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I don't know. Do you think HTML5canvas has more longevity than Java?
No idea, and a good question. I do know that finding working deployments of the java applet plugin is becoming much harder, so the longevity relative to today is a much simpler question to answer…
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I don't know. Do you think HTML5canvas has more longevity than Java?
It's a part of standard, such as it is, and works without any plugins. I'm giving it a chance.
Filed under: just like SVG!
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Love those applets - they were so helpful in college
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I don't know. Do you think HTML5canvas has more longevity than Java?
BZZT! Wrong question.
I'm fairly sure that Java, with its JVM and JRE, will be around for quite some time.
Java applets, on the other hand... Well, this is very much on purpose:
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Not maintaining an applet…
But trying to maintain what very little of my sanity is left, while using an Oracle Forms applet interface to our ERMS. The applet often posts a desktop-wide splash logo when switching from one "screen" to another…
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<img src="/uploads/default/3071/c973f003b9aa86f3.png" width="368" height="184">
That photo is making me feel like vomit. Please do not post such photos. I will ban your account.
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Surely you mean Tommy Lee Jones?
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It's only Harvey Dent.
I read batman comic when in school. I remember penguin and joker and we also get Adam West batman show on TV. That was so much fun.
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No, I think @Nagesh's crazy is based on his love of the protagonist, and reminders of other movies are just too much. And Tommy doesn't seem like his kind of guy.
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And Tommy doesn't seem like his kind of guy.
There's a certain... duality to Nagesh himself, too. Sometimes you just think he starts talking with sense, only for his dark side to take over and putting him back on the edge of incomprehensibility.
I think he'd prefer Tommy's rendition, if only for the females that come with it.
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putting him back on the edge of incomprehensibility
Not that he ever veers very far from it.
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I once had to write a Java-applet to read a screenshot from the clipboard. The only alternative would have been flash, so it was TRWTF vs. TRWTF.
That applet is still live (in the bug-reporting page). To keep things as painless as possible, it's a 1px * 1px applet that offers one method,
getScreenshotFromClipboardAsBase64EncodedPNG(which may or may not be the actual name of the method).I still wouldn't use it, there is an 'Upload from Disk' option too.
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Nowadays, we can just use fancy JavaScript and skip the Java.
Nondualism - Wikipedia
