Re: AWT or Swing or Any other ?
Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
JavaFX is newer and flashier (pun intended). Arne is right to suggest
Read my experiences. It simply did not work. see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javafx.html
"Simply did not work" is not a very deep investigation.
It was not that long ago.
In geological terms?
Which version did you try? When was this? What did you do exactly?
Since the page talks about JavaFX Script, then it is obsolete.
"8. Does JavaFX 2 support JavaFX Script?
Starting with JavaFX 2.0, JavaFX Script is no longer supported. "
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/overview/faq-1446554.html#3
Further it has quite limited browser support.
Browsers do not have to support JavaFX at all. Browsers support
a Java plugin. And then it is up to the Java plugin.
There is a page that lists what's certified to be supported:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/supportedconfigurat=
ions-1506746.html
The only notable exceptions are Chrome on Mac and Internet Explorer on non-=
Windows platforms.
And applets are so much out of fashion anyway, that most likely
JavaFX will be more used for desktop apps than for applets.
Most of the JavaFX documentation focuses on that use case.
It is one more package the user has to install.
No.
The JavaFX 2.0 runtime is now in the standard Java distrubution
(only in Oracle, but when talking about non-server usage, then
that is by far the most common).
I was unable to get
one developer who wanted a mirror copy of my website to install Java
to deliver it to him. He was terrified of it.
Yes, one developer's pathological phobia is sufficient evidence for a world=
wide policy.
He needs a psychiatrist, not an engineer.
Maybe he was misinformed by someone.
:-)
Or maybe he's a psycho.
--
Lew