Author: Pete R.
Date: 17:20:33 07/09/00
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On July 09, 2000 at 10:36:43, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Although I can't say for sure that this is their actual reason or not, there is >one huge reason to use Java - not everyone uses a win32 environment, and >investing a large ammount of time into a win32 dedicated interface and then >spending a lot of time porting it just to get minor support of some other OSes, >never mind complete support would most likely offset the benefit of having such >a dedicated interface. The overwhelming majority of net surfers are running some flavor of Windows, so I think the cross-platform aspect of Java just doesn't wash in this case. As far as Blitzin vs. Winboard this is a taste thing, but isn't winboard free?? Where is the development cost to KC there? All they have to do is create the back end support and everybody can use Winboard for PC, for Mac, for Linux, etc. whatever is already there. No porting, nothing. In any case considering the;r startup money they could have developed a new Win32 inferface if they needed to, they spent the money programming a java environment. They developed a Win32 student client program! So they have the resources to program anything they want, they just made IMO a horrible choice. Go there and have a look, it's good for a laugh, but if you want to watch a live game you will tear your hair out in frustration. Maybe there will be all of 10 people in the playing zone too. ;)
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