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hans

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Time for applets to die
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:45:46 PM »
I'm a Java programmer all day long so I appreciate the language and the coding in it, but I hate applets. Not because they're necessarily bad, but I've never really seen a good one. And they crash/hang my browser all the time. I know they were really popular a few years ago but I really don't see the need for them anymore. Do Flash or AJAX.
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2008, 05:43:50 PM »
I'd like to see flash die also.  IMO ajax and applets are two different beasts.  I think the better thing would be to reconsider whether or not you really need that applet/flash in your page.  99% of the ones I've see are not really needed.
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2008, 05:45:54 PM »
this country is built on the unneccessary tho lol.

And why kill flash? I think it has plenty of valid uses.
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 05:54:59 PM »
Such as....
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2008, 05:55:19 PM »
I'm not a big fan of Flash for web design but I don't know how you'd do video sites like youtube without it.

So youtube is OK to use flash, but only for the video part.
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2008, 07:58:12 PM »
Facebook uses an applet for image uploading. It's way better than selecting file paths individually for a form and it seems more appropriate than flash.
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2008, 08:07:19 PM »
youtube was pretty much my argument
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2008, 09:04:24 PM »
youtube should die also :p
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Re: Time for applets to die
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 09:59:34 AM »
Take it back!!
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