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Foil 63 What's wrong with Java Clients?

From Tango for Distance Education and Training Today Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There is no argument about Java the programming language -- there are some issues about Java the user interface builder
2 First there are the battles between Sun Netscape and Microsoft which makes Java on the client less robust than Java on the server
3 However Java allows to build totally general users interfaces and there appear to be no rules and nothing equivalent to style sheets in HTML/XML.
4 Thus it does not seem practical to build cross disability and cross rendering device interfaces for arbitrary Java applet interfaces
5 On the other JavaScript and dynamic HTML can do many things that you might have thought one needed Java for
6 General Java visual interfaces need languages such as UML to describe interface object model?

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