Janko in a Jar

I am sure, if you tried to make a Java applet in last 3 years, you were told that:

While graphical rendering of a Java applet is somewhere around Flash’s its computational speed is magnitudes higher than that of Flash.

So why is it dead then? Because applets sometimes make browser unresponsive, and occasionally crash it. But flash..

Well, but… Java is growing a Consumer JRE which supposedly will not block nor crash –and– as Flash is becoming more powerful it sometimes blocks too, and it even crashes my browser at special occasions. I think at the end when flash will perform even better than now and Java will have Consumer JRE both will be more or less in the same spot — they only came there from the two totally opposite directions.

What does all this have to do with JavaScript? Well, In this Web 2.0 that we all love JavaScript is used and pushed further and deeper, so even JavaScript started blocking and crashing. And this is not even rare. Certain web services crash my FireFox on exit 50% of times. So I repeat:

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 7:33 pm and is filed under Other stuff, web-dev.