Someone has just this minute asked me this question, and i replyed with the following

me Wrote:you could do in theory i suppose, you just write the applet and upload it to a webserver. i wouldnt recommend it though, it would be so heavy that any users on an average connection would give up waiting for it to load

It does raise an interesting question though. Would it actually be a viable option to write an entire webpage in java. There are pages written entirely in flash, and although tacky and bandwidth heavy, they can be quite clever sometimes. So, it would stand to reason that, sooner or later, someone will attempt to write an entirely java based website.

Just wanted to know what other peoples thoughts on this were, and how much they would hate someone who did such a stupid thing


Me=-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------» This much :P, 2Mbps for the loss

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I don't know if there is anyway to arm java code without html...

the flash base is handled by the mime type written into machines with flash installed.


I don't know...
hmmm...

precisely...

but thinking about it, webpages are downloaded and then used as well.
so in a way they are also like applications