[brailleblaster] Re: Why Java
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:10:21 -0500
What devices? smart phones? I think whatever device that supports a screen
reader that is capable of handling the interface of brailleblaster (which I'll
call bb) should be supported.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Jurgensen
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:46 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Why Java
Hi,
Thank you for the quick response.
Don't these libraries have C equivalents? The C equivalents may not be as
advanced as their Java counterparts, but I am sure that this is a better
long-term goal.
This still does not address the issues of devices that do not support Java.
Regards,
Alex,
On 2010-11-04, at 3:45 PM, qubit wrote:
Perhaps because there are java libraries available that are tempting to use
as a base? As for Apple and Microsoft, the java runtime is not being supported
by them any longer, but third parties may still develop such support to be
distributed with java programs.
Any other things I have missed?
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Jurgensen
To: Brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Why Java
Hi All,
I mention this now, at the relative beginning of the project, so as to
avoid unnecessary work.
Why are we using Java and not writing most of the code in C, with a true,
native UI on top, such as WX-Widgets for C. Because the code would not need to
be exicuted in a virtual machine, we would avoid many of the slowdowns
associated with Java.
We must also think about embeded devices, where the overhead of Java is
either too much for hte battery to tolleratte acceptably or there is no Java
Virtual Machine available.
Furthermore, both Microsoft and Apple have dropped support for Java
within their Operating Systems, it doesn't seem to make sense to continue
coding in Java because we may one day soon need to rewrite all of our code to
aadapt to a whole new class of machines that don't have Java Available.
I feel that if we write the core of our code into C libraries, we should
be able to bring about new UI's, such as a Cocoatouch UI for IOS devices, OR an
QT UI for Nokea and Intel's new project.
Just my two cents.
Regards,
Alex,
Alex Jurgensen,
VoiceOver Trainer,
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Alex Jurgensen,
VoiceOver Trainer,
ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
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