Web start sandboxing and security

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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:

> In case of dialogues we are speaking about - is "show more" worthy for
> dialogue where are two basic buttons and one button and three check boxes
> "advanced" controls?
>
My end-users dont read. They will click "Yes" hoping it will work...Thats
why i dont like negative questions like "do you want to block?".



> Maybe applets are outdated, but jnlp is not. If you think about it,  jnlp
> have been doing safely for long time what all the android an iApple apps
> are doing now. And is doing well also what they are trying to do - to have
> some kind of network-only web-os. Luckily  - the jnlp was working also
> offline so it was/is better.
>
Agree


If you think about classical desktop applications as about dying race, then
> jnlp is missing chain in evolution and is able to be competitor on field of
> "current desktop apps" (no matter what it means).   Bad luck that it was
> never so populated - during years! - as the android and iApps were during
> months...
>
> here I blame only java - not enough api for popular embedded stuff  like
> touchscreens, gps, networks, cameras, gyro-chip and similar.... Well.. It
> can be solved by native call and jnlp do its job too.

IMHO you are doing a great job on IcedTea (-web), trying to keep Java on a
well position, while Oracle is doing the best they can on the opposite way
xD

Regards
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