Re: Dotnet versus Java-Applets

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From: Daniel James (wastebasket_at_nospam.aaisp.org)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:53:03 GMT

In article news:<O#EEL6kxEHA.2036@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Eitan wrote:
> I would like to understand what you mean when you say :
> Applets are on the way out, but in favor of Flash.

I didn't write that - Hal Rosser did.

> Is dotnet technology very simple like Flash.

NET technology is much more like Java than Flash. Both Java and .NET are
more powerful than Flash. Flash is primarily a means of placing animated
graphics and sound into a web page, Java and .NET allow programs to be
embedded in a web page so that they will run in your browser - these programs
may produce animated graphics and sound, or they may carry out calculations
or do anything else that can be done by a program running inthe restricted
environment provided by a browser.

At the moment Java is supported by a great many browsers while .NET is
supported only by IE (?) and only then if the .NET runtime is installed on
the client PC. That may change.

My advice is that you should not use Flash or Java or .NET unless you have a
real need that cannot be satidfied without it. Not all browsers can show
Flash movies or run Java or .NET programs, and you will restrict your
audience if you use these technologies unnecessarily. You can do a great deal
with just HTML if you try.

> If not - when dotnet be much like Java-Applets (as it is today) ? Long-Horn
> ?

NET is already "much like Java-Applets" on Windows if the .NET runtime is
installed. The problem is that .NET isn't available in the browser on Macs or
linux or BSD unix or Solaris or Palm pilots, or most smartphones or
minicomputers ... or any of the millions of other computers that don't run
Windows 2000/XP or don't have the .NET runtime installed.

Cheers,
 Daniel.
 

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