I would hesitate to say your test was conclusive though. I wrote an applet under contract for a telecoms company last year, and with the newer applet tags, things did just seem to work. Sun did quite a bit of work on Applets over the last two years and if you use the current guidelines for applet deployment, it works pretty well. We tested across default installs of Windows XP, Vista on Firefox and IE7 and up, and on the latest Macs across Safari and Firefox and they all worked.
Having said that, I agree there is very little reason to use an applet. But this telecoms company had a very good reason. Regards, Brendon. On 7 Jan 2011, at 13:06 , Michael Wiles wrote: > I just did a test... tried to open a java applet in Chrome, Firefox and > Internet Explorer. I have java installed but none of the browsers was able to > open the applet! Suffice to say, applets were forgotten by Sun and Oracle > doesn't remember them either. Besides, applets IMO always appeared alien to a > browser. The idea was good - to be able to embed a rich application in a > browser, but the execution was weak. Flash/Actionscript whatever else was a > better execution. > > Just to clarify, what do you mean by dedicated server? Why do you need a > "dedicated server" for the webstart solution? > > On 7 January 2011 12:49, Ewald Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > thank you for the feedback, I'm going to stick to a webstart solution > and rather invest in a dedicated server. > > I like the idea of rolling the domain layer into a web service and > will be investigating this once the initial app is up and running with > global access. > > Thank you for the assistance, I appreciate the great advice. > > Regards > Ewald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ > > > > -- > see my blog: > http://analysis102.blogspot.com > http://audiblethoughts.blogspot.com > http://outsideofficehours.blogspot.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Tech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/
