Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> writes:
I happen to have a Sparc 20 box and a Linux box and a SCO box, and ActiveX won't work on any of those. I also work with a bunch of other equipment that's much faster than a PC, but doesn't run browsers. (Most of it is not connected to the 'net for security reasons, but that's besides the point.)
If Bill's client is sure to run the platforms that MS IE runs on, then this is not a consideration.
Interpreted FORTH bytestream (which is what Java is) may be "doing quite well" when drawing GUI gizmos and widgets, but it can't get anywhere near the performance of hand-optimizer assembler that you can stick into ActiveX.
I do not see any reason why Java code cannot be compiled. I think that now there are java compilers available. Maybe even browsers will have smarts to compile code that they execute. - Igor.