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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 18:46:19 GMT
From: Nicolas GRILLY (grilly@emi.u-bordeaux.fr)

HTML for presentation - Java for interactivity - Scripting utils for end-user

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HTML and Java used together

HTML and Java should be used together. Each of them is useful. They are complementary.

HTML for presentation

Presentation must be defined in a standard way. HTML is good to solve this issue. It is the equivalent of dialog and menu resources with Windows programming.

Java Virtual Machine for interactivity

Modern Web must be interactive and must support non-standard presentations (i.e. a chessboard). Java Virtual Machine achieves this goal. Moreover, like HTML, it is portable.

Needed enhancements to achieve this

Links between HTML forms and Java

HTML is responsible for presentation. So, it is also responsible for forms. But links between HTML forms and Java applets are actually poor. It is necessary to developp standard Java libraries in this goal.

Scripting for end-user

End-users need a simple way to introduce interactivity in their pages. Actual solutions, like JavaScript, embeds script directly in HTML. The main drawback is a poor performance relatively to byte-code. The main advantage is easy writing of code.

Solution is development of tools for end-user that generate Java byte-code, isolating user of complexity of understanding Java language.


HyperNews Responses

1. Performance is a non-issue (Charlie Hendricksen)
1. Untitled (John)