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Re:Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf] by spullara on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:46PM (#24537700)
Ironically if Java developers had used the built in DOM APIs instead of the Applet canvas crap, we probably would have had great SPAs a lot earlier.
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Re:Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf] by chii on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:37AM (#24539848)
> DOM APIs instead of the Applet canvas crap

i wonder if it was because at the time, the different DOM api in each browser was so immature, that to unify it into a single api is too big a task. The applet+blackbox region for rendering is the easiest MVP. Of course, with hindsight, that turned out to be a piece of crap.

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Re:Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf] by zaphirplane on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:36AM (#24542123)
Isn’t that jquery? Seems surmounted by a few very talented people
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Re:Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf] by therealx on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:10PM (#24537863)
True, and if gui libraries stuck with common widgets that were cross platform, we would already have a long term native cross platform GUI toolkit.
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