Comments on: JavaFX links of the week, July 19

By: jbs

jbs — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:50:58 +0000

I realize that it hasn’t been announced here yet but thank you for getting rid of the wierd rotating sun-ray java plugin animation with 1.3.1. This new system is so much better. Also I think I note an improvement in startup withh 1.6.0_u21. I would characterize it as a 20% improvement.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:34:04 +0000

I asked about this on Oracle’s Facebook page, and surprisingly received a reply to the effect that the samples at javafx.com were only ever intended to be code examples and not whiz-bang demos per se – but that they understood that good-looking demos were a priority and were working towards it. That was a few weeks ago now, however.

I also made the comparison between the javafx.com demos, and this:

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

If it’s showing off RIA, there is simply no comparison at the moment.

By: Olivier Allouch

Olivier Allouch — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:30:20 +0000

Are you aware that you just made an announcement ?
When is this updated plugin out ?

Btw, have you read my comment ?

By: Richard Bair

Richard Bair — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:50:02 +0000

I think the solution to the “30 seconds for the home page to load problem” is best fixed by addressing the root cause (slow plugin) rather than by retreating

By: Olivier Allouch

Olivier Allouch — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:51:51 +0000

Concerning the “JavaFX is a train wreck” debate, they all know the solution to make it an instant success: give it a Java syntax.
When JavaFX was introduced, Richard Bair kept repeating “you have to separated JavaFX and the JavaFX Script technologies” or “it’s Swing2 we’re building here”.

That would be enough to make me try it in my current Swing projects.
All we want is a cleaner, less inheritance-oriented Swing API, which JavaFX can be.

Come on ! Give it a Java API, add the whole SwingX team to the project and watch it grow !

By: jbs

jbs — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:40:35 +0000

Kirill is right about one thing: Oracle should pull at least two thirds of the ugly apps from the JavaFX site. Those apps are no advertisement for using JavaFX. They’re an eyesore. Spend some money. Hire some real designers to rework the samples section and ban all apps from the JavaFX home page. If I have to wait 30 seconds for the home page to load, I’m not sticking around.