Re:Web Starter Kit
by coldtea on Friday June 20, 2014 @01:47AM
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So? If the Java applet was not proprietary, slow and crappy, and if Sun got GUIs and applications, it would be a good thing.
And none of the above are necessary elements of a reinvention.
In fact, it's the current web one-page-app mess that is a re-invention of the notion of the Java applet warts and all: it's slow, has crappy GUI support, and it's a mess to develop in (like Swing was over-engineered crap).
We could use an actual sandboxed, "runs code from internet resources" platform, that contains the whole stack rethought and simplified.
And none of the above are necessary elements of a reinvention.
In fact, it's the current web one-page-app mess that is a re-invention of the notion of the Java applet warts and all: it's slow, has crappy GUI support, and it's a mess to develop in (like Swing was over-engineered crap).
We could use an actual sandboxed, "runs code from internet resources" platform, that contains the whole stack rethought and simplified.