(keitai-l) Re: [java based phones]

Actually, using Appstream type intelligent downloading will significantly
decrease download penalties, and high quality JIT compilation generally
takes care of the performance issues.

Eric Hildum

> From: "Jonathan Shore" <jshore@e-shuppan.com>
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:56:46 +0900
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: [java based phones]
> 
> 
> 
>> This situation seems to roughly parallel one of the issues that first
>> arose with Java as a server-side web language: how to get applets
>> to look snazzy in any browser.  The most honest assessment at the
>> time was that applets were unlikely to ever match handcrafted
>> application GUIs.
>> 
> 
> Let the truth be told - java sucks as a GUI / front-end platform.
> 
> As much as I like and use java, most applications & games would be better
> written and displayed with an embedded swf player (flash 5).  Flash 5 now:
> 
> * uses a javascript-like language
> Ok not as nice as java, but flexible enough
> 
> * concise visual layout / description
> read small footprint & fast downloads.  Nothing java can do here
> 
> * many designers who can build in this medium
> Who wants to hand code animations, anti-aliasing, scaling, rendering,
> etc?
> 
> The downside is:
> 
> * slightly less flexibility & uglier code (potentially)
> 
> As you know a number of manufacturers (such as nokia) are starting to
> produce phones with embedded swf players.  This is where the future lies
> IMO.
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> CTO
> E-Publishing Group K.K.
> 
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