Interesting post from Jonathan Locke on Javalobby on a fundamental problem with JavaFX (hah, you knew I couldn’t stay away from this topic forever, right?). Namely, it depends on the layout managers and font-handling that have bedeviled Java client apps since the dawn of time. This is a shortfall that has been cheerfully ignored as the bulk of Java development has lived on the server, but how does Java expect to beat slick competitors like Flash and its descendants if it can’t even get the fonts right? Software Development