Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly
On 7/2/2014 1:41 PM, w.tom.adams@gmail.com wrote:
I developed a web site www.poologic.com that depends on a couple of Java applets (Poologic Calculator and ROI Calculator).
The web site has become increasingly user unfriendly and hard to use due the Oracle's efforts to address security and the fact that applets are going out of style. (I developed the applets in 1999, maybe they were going out of style already back then, but I did not notice it till more recently.)
I am trying to figure out what to do.
Personally (I can't speak for others), I do not allow my
browsers to run Java: It's too risky. Were I on an intRAnet
with applets served up internally I'd be willing to run those,
but on the wild and lawless intERnet? Not for me, thanks.
So, for me (again, I can't speak for others), applets on
the Internet might as well not be there at all. Your applet,
however useful it might be, is of no use to me because I
can't/won't run it. To reach a wider audience, I think you
need to adopt a different technology.
Just a data point, personal opinion, the Secretary will
disavow all knowledge, etc., etc.
Is there a browser that is likely to support applets long-term?
HotJava. ;-(
(Only partly in jest. Your problem really isn't "Does such a
browser exist?" but "Will the people who want to use my site run
such a browser, in an applet-accepting configuration?")
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Eric Sosman
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