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I am not sure that was the problem, The way I recall it: The apps were typically pretty ugly and Windows had a near monopoly at the time. If either of those we
by rileymat2 5y ago
I am not sure that was the problem, The way I recall it:
The apps were typically pretty ugly and Windows had a near monopoly at the time. If either of those were not true, it might have fared better.
- marcodiego 5y agoSwing default appearance may look alien on windows, but I remember a demonstration from a friend of mine where he turned it to native appearance with a few clicks. You can see some successful java desktop apps with native UI, one I remember is utorrent. Also, windows users are very used, specially at the time, to inconsistent appearance. So, I don't think default appearance on windows had anything to do with java's decline there.
- kaba0 5y agoHell, windows has like 6 actually native looks at the same time still running next to each other, often with duplicated functionality..
- userbinator 5y agouTorrent is definitely NOT Java --- the binary itself is a few orders of magnitude smaller than a JVM! You might be thinking of Azureus (since renamed Vuze)?