Re: [PLUG] Plugins and Mozilla

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:52:13AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Despite even that, what about this required what of Java? Just the
> fact that it was embedded in a web page, no?

I don't quite understand the point you're making here...

> As Martin pointed out, not a problem. (Anyway, "O", "N", and so on
> are pretty universal...)

:)

I'm not arguing with your rants about Java, since I haven't programmed
with it myself.  I just brought up that page since it's an interesting
programming application that would be significantly more difficult (IMO)
to do it with HTML than with Java, assuming it could even be done.
While on the subject of client-side programming, I always disdained
JavaScript (yes, I realize that it is quite distinct from Java) until I
was told to do some (IMO not-very-critical) form validation server-side.
Then I realized that it would be much simpler if I were permitted to do it
in JavaScript.  (The outcome was that I had to do it server-side since the
client has a strict policy of doing nothing on their web site client-side,
but the problem I was required to solve wound up being much simpler than
I had initially understood it to be.)  Not to mention that it would be
much faster than having to submit, send the POST, have the server munch
on it for a while, and spit out an error message back to the user.  Not
that I haven't seen enough bad and/or gratuitous uses of JavaScript to
nearly turn me off to the whole idea in general.

Anyway, you'd asked for a useful example of Java on the client side... <g>

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