[Phpmyadmin-devel] Java Applet

[Rabus]

Am Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:02:12 -0400 hat Marc Delisle 
<DelislMa at CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> geschrieben:

> Garvin Hicking wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the whole Java-thingie, I just have this pragmatic point of 
>> view: What is the alternative to providing an applet for easy PDF 
>> positioning (which is important for everyone seriously using the PDF 
>> feature? I don't see how this can be done with today's techniques, even 
>> though you all keep saying you don't like Java. :)
>
> I did not _say_ it :)

nuke all Java applets! ;-)

>
> Can't easy positionning be done without dragging? just with js and some 
> clicking?
> see http://javascript.internet.com/games/battleship.html

OK guys, I think, I'll be busy trying to beat this battleship AI for a 
while... don't expect quick answers...
Marc, could you code something like that for our PDF creation mechanism? 
Personally, I'm not that good at JS. :-(

>
>>
>> I mean, it's not that we are forced to develop that applet, but we are 
>> offered an allegedly working software. I agree with what nijel said 
>> about maintainability. The suggestion to make a cfg switch for it and 
>> add a link in our Documentation and/or inside the config file is good 
>> for me. If we ever decide to upgrade our pdf page generation so that the 
>> java applet becomes unusable, we are still free to drop it.
>>
>> How about waiting if this person ever mails back (which he hasn't done 
>> so far) and let's evaluate that applet from a user's view?

If he/she/it does so, please ask, if someone would keep on working on the 
applet in the future. I'm not that experienced with Java, so I won't be 
able to work on incoming bug reports etc and I guess I'm not the only 
one... :-)

Regards,

Alexander M. Turek

--