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"The web is the closest we've ever come to a standards compliant universal platform that is write once - works everywhere, period." I think Java applications s
by alec 16y ago
"The web is the closest we've ever come to a standards compliant universal platform that is write once - works everywhere, period."
I think Java applications succeeded better in this regard. I remember hearing about fewer incompatibilities between JRE versions than I currently hear between browsers; there was never a "stop supporting JRE 1" campaign like there has been for successive versions of IE.
- misterbwong 16y agothere was never a "stop supporting JRE 1" campaign like there has been for successive versions of IE. there isn't a "stop JRE 1" campaign but there's a good amount of "stop breaking stuff with your updates, sun". working in helpdesk a couple years ago, we needed to keep specific versions of JRE for specific applications. if you ever needed to use two apps that required two different versions of JRE, well....good luck.
- sreque 16y agoFrom my understanding this is always because the developers did something they know they shouldn't have, like access private unsupported features of a specific version of a Sun JVM. I've seen quite a bit of java code written and all of it could run on multiple versions of Java with no problem.
- grhino 16y agoAnyone who created Java applets heard lots of gripes about the Microsoft JRE vs Sun JRE. I wouldn't be surprised if web games implemented as applets are still using the 10 year old API of the old Microsoft JRE. I still shudder when I think about fixing Java plugin installation issues.