On 11/13/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
All of this is ignoring the amazing accessibility problems of Java. Not only will all of this be totally inaccessible to people on low tech devices and the visually impaired, but a huge amount of our viewers just don't have java installed (I posted numbers on this previously).
I don't see client-side Java as serving any major purpose beyond providing an alternative platform-independent way to deliver multimedia content for people who don't have native players installed. Trying to implement any of the core application in Java at the client end targets too small of a usability segment; many people have no JRE installed in their computer (or at least no JRE extension in their web browser), and even if they do they have a JRE that only supports version 1.2 or even 1.1 of the specification.
Kelly