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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:46:57 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java-request@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinmfMdYUpNGKCCAX1cE7pZJDFC07BoRsQ9XxhsA@mail.gmail.com> (Jules Gilbert's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:38:00 -0400")
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>>>>> "Jules" == Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com> writes:

Jules> Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
Jules> developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
Jules> say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
Jules> browser.

And that's why I challenged you as to "why".  We needed Java to run in
the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets.  But with
HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, "why Java"?

Java had its day.  Time to move on.

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