New Java Plugin!?
*sigh*
So there is this interview over at JavaLobby with Ken Russell discussing the new Java browser plugin. Go ahead… go read it… I’ll wait…
*waits*
Ok, they’re just now writing a new browser plugin for java? I have a friend (a user, not a programmer) who absolutely swears java is horrible because of his experience with it. Everytime I hit a webpage with a java applet, my browser freezes for like 20 seconds, and maybe 1 out of 5 times the entire thing will just crash. Unfortunately experiences such as this are many people’s primary experience with java. They see a java logo on a webpage, and their browser freezes/crashes. Great PR.
I’m excited about a new plugin, but I’m excited about it from a user perspective. I think it is personally too little too late. The idea that java inside a browser is horrible is already firmly entrenched. There would have to be some huge killer app(let) necessary to convince the world otherwise.
Imagine if they had rewritten the browser plugin back when they should have. Imagine a YouTube powered by java instead of flash.
But now? It’s already been done. Java is doing something that’s already been done by everyone else a couple generations ago. Java is behind the curve, yet again.
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