Sun JSDK versus others. WAS: Re: Installfest menu - last ch…

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 13:18, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> liberty young said:
> > I just don't want to outright dismiss the Sun JSDK. I like the fact that
> > the code my friend writes on his machine behaves (for better or worse)
> > exactly the same on my machine.
>
> Again this is improper logic. Think about web browsers. I can write a
> webpage that displays perfectly on Windows Internet Explorer and on
> Macintosh's Internet Explorer, but won't display worth a crap in any other
> browser because I have used all sorts of ill behaved feartures exclusive
> to MS Internet Exploder.
>
> A true test to the quality of the product is that you can write code that
> works in multiple vendors Java. Not just one vendor on multiple
> platforms. BTW: I'm not saying Sun's Java has this problem as I have only
> ever used under GNU/Linux. Just pointing out that the reasoning doesn't
> play out.
>
> -Derek
>

That paragraph was in response to a previous post where it was stated
that the JSDK was 'crap' on Linux compared to Windows. I was simply
saying, from personal experience, that it isn't.

A true test of the web-page would be to see how strict it conforms to
the W3C standards. Good browsers will implement it well, and poorer
browsers will not. If the web-page strays from the standard, then one
must be prepared to be caught in the middle of the browser wars.

I'm not sure which body or organization says does the same thing for
Java. I'm banking on that Sun has a more 'official' version than others.
I could be wrong, though.

You do bring up a good point we (myself and co-developer) haven't though
of. We would be wise to do tests of our application on other versions of
the JRE before we consider it "done".