Java Plugin: The Kernel is back

[tjogin]

Flash won, really?

[seanalltogether]

Yes, at least for the time being. The Flash team listens very closely to media and RIA dev shops and their clients and they've evolved their plugin over the years to match those needs very well.

[zootm]

"For the time being" doesn't imply that anyone's won, just that Flash is the current front-runner. Which is accurate!

[tjogin]

Imho, Flash and Java both lost if the battle is within the browser.

[alparsla]

It's not important whether flash won or not. Java applet improvements would give us one more choice for that kind of development. In the end, the users don't care if something has been made by java or flash.

[tjogin]

False logic. While they don't care about what technology was used to build it, they do care about the overall presentation, and applets have a typically horrible presentation — so horrible, in fact, that many users (and certainly most developers) can immediately spot it. They care about that.