On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 13:37:47 UTC, ketmar wrote:
and there was a thing that allows to use real applications without installing them... java web start! way too ahead of it's time, though...
Java got itself a bad reputation in the 90s by providing a really poor implementation.
The situation that is emerging now is that you can integrate different browser technologies, and that browser vendors cooperate, and that makes all the difference.
