On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:43 am, Jeremy Turner wrote:
Java had the first crack at being platform independent. It got a reputation at being very slow in the beginning, and many people still repeat that.
Java is a virtual operating system that can be installed on top of other operating systems. As an OS, it's somewhat limited and specialized, but that's what the "Virtual Machine" in java is all about.
Java applications don't run on Windows or Linux, they run on Java, which runs on Windows or Linux.
Personally, I object to having to install an operating system on my operating system in order to see the animated dingbats on somebody's web site. Give me something like HTML that "runs" natively on multiple platforms, that doesn't require me to download and install a support system.