RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] programmers that don't know tarballs?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I'd like to extend that.  If you use Java applets for anything OTHER
> THAN applications, you ought to be shot.  "ooh, look at the pretty
> moving pictures" can be done with javascript, gif, png, and many other
> formats which do not eat CPU the way Pac-man eats power-pellets.

Overall I don't think Java is a very good web technology. I just leave it
turned off in my browser at all times and the lack never bothers me. The
problem isn't so much Java as it's mismatched pairing with the web. Java
makes real programs that run at least partly client-side and require a
sometimes large download (by web standards) to make work. The browser/web
was designed around the concept of sharing information in a simple way to
many types of different devices over very slow connections and being
mostly server-side for whatever processing needed to take place. A lot of
newbies don't really understand the differences and so their websites end
up mangled between concepts. I still say Hushmail is the best Java-based
app I've seen and it has almost nothing to do with it being accessible via
web. It's a program that just happens to be reachable by the web and it
doesn't smash together bits of each.

> If netscape integrates it, netscape is profiting from it, and thus is
> liable, not you.

That would be fine with me. I don't care if Netscape turns into a ball of
gas and burns in flaming glory. They've been dead ever since AOL bought
them anyway.

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