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The startup time was horrible. The speed, once it was running, was good, but the startup time made it completely unusable on the web. The ugly default UIs in Ja
by e98cuenc 10y ago
The startup time was horrible. The speed, once it was running, was good, but the startup time made it completely unusable on the web. The ugly default UIs in Java did not help.
I did my fair share of applets back in the day, starting with the very first public versions and have very vivid memories of the loading screen :)
- whatusername 10y agoI always wonder -- if Sun had forced people to build their own loading screen UI per applet -- how the perception of Java (and Java Applets) would be different.
- OOPMan 10y agoIt's worth remembering that Applets were active at a time when the Internet, as a whole, was a lot slower. Although yeah, even with our newfangled fibre connections applets are still pretty bloated.
- pookeh 10y agoYou should also take into account that internet speeds of that era were not as great. Today, we download multiple megabytes of javascript. Back then downloading the same multiple megabytes of java was slow because of network. At least that was the case for me...