Re: Re: [xul-announce] Thinlet Tutorial I: Calculator Example by Alan Williamson
Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:38 -0700, Arron Ferguson wrote: > Charles, > > Actually you don't really include the price of the VM just like > you don't include the price of the OS you're running when you > run say Linux, Windows, Solaris or Mac OS X with native code. Well that's a crap argument if ever I heard one. You _need_ the OS to run. It's _guarranteed_ to be installed if you're using your computer - otherwise you wouldn't be able to use it! You _need_ the Java VM to run Thinlet applications. It is _not_ guarranteed to be installed. There are a large number of scenarios where it will not be installed. .NET has the same problems. It will only come with more recent versions of Windows. Anything that requires a non-ubiquitous piece of technology to preinstalled will suffer from similar caveats; that some users will have to do extra leg work to get it running. 38k iff Java is installed. ;) But I didn't mean to complain about your marketting. I just felt that the caveat needed pointing out once in a while on this list. ;) (Genuine question.) Does Thinlet run on .NET? -- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Online @ www.charlietech.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org