"Rob Church" wrote:
It was an example of one such use case. Sidestepping the bigger issue with a trivial implementation detail like this isn't helpful.
Rob Church
Not so trivial. People underestimate JS power. Many of this applets could be probably done in javascript. I have seen plenty of webs using java or flash for a damned background-changing button link! Why should i use such de-facto standard?? Why should i have it installed? I use a WEB browser, expecting html. ''Happily'' some people are so kind of including the 'skip intro' link _into_ the object (making it unusable if you see no object). Now, i have no problem on using Java for issues where 'a program' is needed, like webchats or maths simulations. This proposed use seems acceptable. What i was saying is that quite of them could be done with javascript. We could also use a mixed system. Js is also always easier to read as it has no binary. Syntax should probably be [[image: ]] including the applet, with the extension blocked on upload (some dangerus_types allowed to admins?).
At last, i don't really know if i'm being coherent, i probably 'jumped' too much with the object-including issue, but .. badly webs are so frequent... :-( I'm interested anyway on seeing the proposed applets. They won't probably be a lot, i guess... (unless we have a lot of hidden java wikipedists).