[2729] in java-interest
AWT behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ser@jersey.uoregon.edu)
Thu Oct 12 04:14:34 1995
From: ser@jersey.uoregon.edu
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: owner-java-interest-digest@java.sun.com's message of Sun, 08 Oct
1995 13:11:09 -0700.
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:50:54 -0700
I have a couple of questions I'd like to address to Arthur, if he has time to
reply.
There has been mention of problems with the Layout managers in the Beta java
release. I never did see anybody from the JDT admit that it is a problem with
AWT. By "it" I mean unpredictable and incorrect layout of items. I'd like to
know if there isn't a problem, because that then means that I'm doing
something wrong, and I can then ask stupid questions with impunity.
Secondly, I find it curious that the only applets that seem to work with
Netscape 2.0b are written a bit differently than normal applets. That is,
they in general contain a "main" and put objects in their own frames, etc,
which Netscape then sucks up into the browser. Or at least this is the
impression I get. Other applets, ones written as in the Alpha release, with
"init", "paint", "start", etc. in general do not work.
My question is not whether Netscape interprets applets correctly; I'd be
rather suprised if it did. What I'd like to know is whether the applet
paradigm is going to follow more the Alpha release, where applets looked
nothing like stand-alone programs, or is applet construction looking more like
programs which could be run by themselves?
Oh, and how do you get "java" to pre-interpret bytecode, to get the fabled
improved performance?
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