Hello, Joshua Marinacci has posted a blog story on Sun's Java.net site titled "Web Start Rant".
Joshua writes: Send me your ideas of what you'd like to see out of Web Start. What are the missing features. What are the most important bugs? I want to figure out what we can do through addons and what requires changes from Sun. This is what I'd like to see: * Better icon support. Make the width/height attributes do something, like select the right icon for the right job. If the desktop uses 48x48 icons, use the <icon width="48" height="48"> first. Let the jnlp file include platform specific icons too. Also, support PNG w/ transparency. Java apps still look inferior to native ones with such awful icon and splash screen support. * Create a SocketService to ask the user for permission to contact a site, and let the program spell out a reason why. Remember that permission in the future. (Think of the OS X keychain). * More demonstration applications. There should be a top quality example app that looks great, runs fast, and exercises all of the Web Start features. The source should be available and well documented. Pay someone to do this if you have to. * A sample self-contained JSP that implements the Web Start/jre autodetection and autodownload. The current document is spotty and scattered. This should be super easy to drop into your existing website. and much more Source: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2004/10/webstart_rant_1.html - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ lopica-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lopica-announce
