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From: jordan@cruzio.com (Jordan Bortz)
Subject: Re: Native Widgets
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The Ironic thing is, 80% of those platforms are Windows anyway!
But, just because Java has a Web Centric Bias (and with NCs, there ARE
no native widgets), that doesnt mean Java is going to be locked into
that corner.

People are going to develop native Widows apps with Java (non web
apps) and they will want the Native Widgets.

Further, the JavaBeans API allows for native or emulated widgets,
similar to the way Tigre was designed and could have been possible for
VisualWorks, had they ever gotten it together.

So, yes, there will be native widgets for Java, and people developing
windows apps will want them. But, you are right, that in the current
furor to unseat MicroSoft, they are "turtling" on that feature as
well.

Just because java has many deficienceies (now) that make it unusable /
unpalatable (non native widgets) in some/many applications doesnt mean
that Smalltalk doesnt share the same flaws.  

On the other hand, outside of PPD's Opium Den, damn few developers are
developing Web applications with Smalltalk -- thus, the need for the
native widgets on the one platform is considerably higher than on the
other.
		Jordan


Alan Lovejoy <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:

>Eric Clayberg wrote:
>> 
>> Jordan Bortz wrote:
>> 
>> > So how does that bode for Native Widgets?
>> 
>> For VisualWorks? Not very well, I'm afraid. At least all of the other
>> commercial Smalltalk dialects will have them.

>Not everyone needs or even wants native widgets.  After all, isn't that one
>of Java's selling points: x-platform portability?

>--
>Alan L. Lovejoy		|==============================================| 
>Smalltalk Consultant	|	Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs!	       |
>alovejoy@concentric.net |==============================================|


