Quote of the day

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

A Java applet runs in a 100% pure java fantasy world, neatly enclosed in its rectangular real estate. Putting code in a page makes sense if you can control that page; doing your little masturbatory stuff, alone in your tiny square box makes no sense. That’s why javascript made it and java didn’t: javascript acknowledged that the game was about getting intimate with the page, and getting your hands covered with slimy tag soup.

Reddit comment by fab13n on Joel’s article “Strategy Letter VI”