Why is Chat in JAVA

[1of13 0]

Why is chat in JAVA! Can't be made in Flash??? And when is there going to be schedule for Central Europe time zone???

[Nicolas Lepage 0]

Sounds like you're new here...welcome to STSF

 

As for a schedule for central europe...there are neither advanced sims not academies at decent times for us euopeans. I've heard rumours that someone is considering an advanced simulation that would be more convenient for us to attend. I suppose it's difficult though because you'd need enough people who are able to attend regularly since if they make any sim like 9 pm our time that's 3 pm ET and quite frankly at that time I'd have better things to do than simming. Most people have jobs or still go to school so you can imagine the problem. So we can just hope that at one point we might get enough europeans on here to start our own sim. Until then we just have to get up early or stay up late.

I can, however, give you the academy schedule for CET so you won't have to figure it out yourself. Keep in mind that if an academy is scheduled on,say, sunday evening it's already monday morning for us.

 

Monday: 5 am-6 am CO: STSF Dacotah ; XO: STSF Scetti

6 am-7 am CO: STSF KBear ; XO: STSF Precip

 

Tuesday: 4 am-5 am CO: STSF BluRox ; XO: STSF LoAmi

 

Wednesday: 3 am-4 am CO: STSF Jorlis ; XO: STSF Jami

5 am-6 am CO: STSF Laura ; XO: STSF GromVik

 

Thursday: 4 am-5 am CO: STSF Dacotah ; XO: STSF Atragon

 

Friday: 4 am-5 am CO: STSF Lebowski ; XO: STSF N'Dak

 

Saturday: -no Academy-

 

Sunday: 6 am-7 am CO: STSF Sovak ; XO: STSF Jorlis

 

There you go. So whenever you get your Java working. Try this: System, Network- and Internetconnections,Internet Options (I'm not sure whether that's really what it says since my windows is not in english but it should sound similar) if you click through the stuff you'll get to a list with which you can configure your internet. Make sure the box for Java is checked. That was my problem and it took me almost a whole day to figure out what was wrong.

Hope to see you around and don't forget to check out the FAQ section and the tips from the Moose.

Edited April 7, 2005 by Nicolas Lepage

[Ki'rok 0]

OH!! You said why is it in JAVA...I thought you said JAWA.....

 

THAT would be silly ..cause you wouldn't be able to understand it...unless you were from Tattooine and spoke Jawaian :blink:

 

Forget I even said anything... :blink:

[LoAmi 0]

Welcome to STSF. Although I'm not much of a fan of Java or Flash, Java is somewhat more conducive to web-based chat applications than Flash is. As far as I understand it, Flash was designed primarily as a presentation language and Java as a full programming language.

 

The advantages of Java over competitors, like, say ActiveX, is that it's truly cross-platform (in theory, it works the same way on Windoze, Mac, GNU/Linux, Solaris, etc.), whereas others are geared specifically to one system or another. Java also has a pretty decent security model that prevents web applets from gaining access to your system.

 

Another advantage of Java is that Sun tends to release new versions for all platforms at about the same time, and they come with the same feature set. Macromedia sometimes takes a while to release non-Windoze versions.

 

Out of curiosity, what prompted the question?

[Vex Xiang 0]

Some people have implimented chat-based programs with Flash, but Java is just more accomodating to that kind of application. Flash is just too slow for any networking options IMO.

 

What's wrong with Java?

[HyperDrive 0]

Java is about the only thing that can present realtime chat without a refresh (refresh happens within the applet). PHP chat scripts (or most Flash chat scripts, for that matter) all require a refresh rate... making the chat a couple of seconds off real-time and you get those annoying clicks every refresh on IE (which there is a patch for somewhere). [[ Use Firefox. hehehe. ]]

[STSF_BluRox 0]

I love a good cup of Joe.

 

Hmmm.....java java java......

 

Blu

[LoAmi 0]

Some people have implimented chat-based programs with Flash, but Java is just more accomodating to that kind of application. Flash is just too slow for any networking options IMO.

Computer geeks sometimes do things just because they can, not because it's the best solution, take, as an extreme example, the, uh, Brainf*** programming language.

[Dumbass 0]

OH!! You said why is it in JAVA...I thought you said JAWA.....

 

THAT would be silly ..cause you wouldn't be able to understand it...unless you were from Tattooine and spoke Jawaian :D

 

Forget I even said anything... <_<

The official language of Tatooine is Huttese anyway. At least before the Empire it was, since the Hutts were the closest thing the planet had to a government at the time.

[Ki'rok 0]

The official language of Tatooine is Huttese anyway. At least before the Empire it was, since the Hutts were the closest thing the planet had to a government at the time.

Are you serious? The Hutts have been slinging that "official" line of crap for decades...Jawas have the highest population concentration on the planet...

 

The Hutts represent "the man" anyway...and in the words of one of my fav' movies

 

"...Damn the Man"

 

<_<

 

::awaits NDaks T-L thunderbolts::

[Dumbass 0]

Are you serious? The Hutts have been slinging that "official" line of crap for decades...Jawas have the highest population concentration on the planet...

 

The Hutts represent "the man" anyway...and in the words of one of my fav' movies

 

"...Damn the Man"

 

<_<

 

::awaits NDaks T-L thunderbolts::

That's my point! Because all the socio-economic power on Tatooine is concentrated with the Hutt clans they ARE the men! It's the Golden Rule - He who hath the gold maketh the rules.

 

As to why the chat is in Java I have to quote Blutowski from Animal House: "BUURRRP - Why not?"