First, I like Java, too, but personally I think applets are not a good solution for a webpage. If you design a full GUI as an applet, you could equally as well or better do it as a standalone java application (which still uses the server over the net like the applet does, but is not trapped inside the browser!). To do math, you have to open the browser AND have to open the webpage. On the other hand you just have to open an application (or just less, directly using java webstart without explicit local installations!)
JavaScript is in the end more lightweight and more accepted (no separate install needed, less memory, ...) And please have a look at the GWT, which merges GUI development of java apps and standard java syntax with javascript on the web in a very interesting approach! - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ [one example: http://www.theclassconnection.com/cc/ClassConnect.html?ver=1.4.8 - there is a demo page] greetings Harald On Jan 11, 3:03 am, "Ted Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know what Java can do and I have posted demo code which illustrates > it running in the notebook. Now I want to see what Javascript is > capable of because almost everything GUI-related I have seen which is > written in Javascript seems unfinished to me when compared to Java GUI > stuff. From what I have seen so far, Javascript is simply incapable > of coming anywhere close to what Java can do. If it can, I would love > to see actual running examples like I have been providing :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
