Re: AJAX, why not Applets

"Andrew Thompson" <SeeMySites@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:13:21 GMT, Dag Sunde wrote:
<snipped>
>> In certain cases Applets are *really* usefull. In controlled situations
>> where you need i.e. a "grid" gui,
>
> - HTML table
>
>>..access to the users clipboard,
>
> - snippet of JS
>
>>.. printer,
>
> - 'alt f | p', or 'ctrl p' ..in my browser.
>

An html-table implementing a spreadsheet-like gui, with
multiple selection, cut/copy/paste, formatted print,
save, arrow-key cell-navigation, etc. etc.?

I have thought about trying to implement such a beast in
HTML/CSS/JS several times, but always given up before I've started.

>> et.c. You can use a signed applet, and extend the usefullness of the
>> browser as a application-container.
>
> You need to add those things to a (signed) applet
> specifically, whereas they come free with a little
> well designed HTML and some snippets of JS.

Of course you have to add them, but the complex functionality
I described above (should have been more specific the first time),
does certainly *not* come for free "with a little well designed..."

>
> Perhaps you think I am going a little off topic,
> but I am also thinking of another thread where the
> (D)HTML/Applet divide was being discussed.
> <http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/7f4320f3a5860ce7>
>
> Again in this thread, I find myself wondering if
> there is anything in the applet that could not
> be done (usually, better, faster and cleaner)
> in appropriate HTML/CSS supported by well
> written JS.

The scenario I described above is one of the main reasons I
turn to Applets once in a while. (My customers are brokers,
and live & breathe Excel). So if you have any suggestions on
better, faster and cleaner, implemented in HTML/CSS/JS, I will
be eternally grateful.

--
Dag.


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