Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java...
by oblio on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:50AM
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Weren't applets also cached?
To be honest, I think that hate of applets comes from a time when 56kbps download speeds were considered very high, the average CPU had 1 core at 200 Mhz and the average webpage weighed 20k and executed 5-10 lines of Javascript.
I haven't used applets in the time, but if the user experience would be improved (nice looking UI, respecting modern UX conventions, etc.), I imagine your average applet from circa 1999 would run circles around Gmail, for example :)
Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java...
by mping on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:48AM
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Not only that, swing applets are notoriously fugly. One reason electron is successful is because it kinda looks like native. Swing Look and Feels all seem alien.
To be honest, I think that hate of applets comes from a time when 56kbps download speeds were considered very high, the average CPU had 1 core at 200 Mhz and the average webpage weighed 20k and executed 5-10 lines of Javascript.
I haven't used applets in the time, but if the user experience would be improved (nice looking UI, respecting modern UX conventions, etc.), I imagine your average applet from circa 1999 would run circles around Gmail, for example :)