[PRL] quick question about JS/REST, etc

[Matthias Felleisen]

Is your .net rewriter done yet? -- Matthias


On Mar 7, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Daniel Pinto de Mello e Silva wrote:

> Hi, I'm a little confused about the comments about client-side
> JavaScript on the REST thread from last month.
>
> What's the difference between JavaScript applets and Java applets?
> Well, other than:
>
> * It's convenient for a server to generate some JS code for each
> request, but inconvenient (slow) for a server to generate a Java .class
> file and force the browser to load the new Java class for each request.
>
> * JS in a browser has access to the current page object, so it can read
> from and write to any widget/DOM-node on the current page, whereas Java
> applets read from other applets on the page and write to an AWT/Swing
> pane.
>
> * JavaScript is not Java.
>
> By the way, is this any different from Microsoft XAML over IE?  Because
> the three look almost the same to me.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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