Re: Strange applet behaviour on Windows XP

From:
Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:44:30 +0000
Message-ID:
<fhfc60$c44$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>
Lew wrote:

Lew wrote:

Applets suck.


Nigel Wade wrote:

That's not the fault of the applets. It's the fault of Sun due to their lack

of

support for 64bit Linux.

The same is true of web start on other platforms.


This is true even when I try to run applets in 32b mode. I run JWS in 32b
mode just fine.

The problem here is due to how Firefox relates to Fedora, not the 64b issue.


Really?

I don't use Fedora, but I have two Sun servers here running 64bit RHEL4. I have
installed 32bit Firefox (direct from Mozilla, not a RH package) and can use the
Sun Java plugin to run applets. The first thing I do with RHEL (and Fedora when
I used to run it) is throw away all the gcj and other non-Sun "java" which RH
bundle. I don't mess with "alternatives", jpackage and all that nonsense as I
don't consider there to be any alternative to the Sun Java platform.

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            University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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