[geeks] javascript tutorial sought?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
> >I basically want to turn the web browser into a (very specialized)
> >"termnial emulator" designed to support card games rather than text
> >"console" applications.  Perhaps JavaScript is a wrong approach?
> 
> If I were doing something like that, I'd write a Java applet.  It would 
> require more horsepower than the Javascript method

Why would JIT'd Java require more horsepower than interpreted Javascript?