On 11/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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