Re: window

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:21:55 GMT
Message-ID:
<7aaea8921839e@uwe>
Matt Humphrey wrote:

| ..
| >I would like to open a window from a java application, to display a
| >HTML file or URL. ..
|
| Supplied by your site, or ripped off someone else's site?

That seems pretty harsh right off the top.


Perhaps. I preferred to think of it as 'direct', and
there was a technical point I was getting to.

JEditorPane is entirely suited to showing HTML
that is under the *direct control of the developer.*
This could apply to stuff coming off their own site
(presumably) or certainly to HTML that they specifically
supply with the app..

Another 'upside' to JEP in the situation the OP
outlined, is that the HTML does not even need to
be 'expanded' onto the local file system.

JEP can pull HTML (+ stylesheets and images etc.)
directly from Jar files.

[ OTOH - going the "rip off other people's sites" way -
- JEP is unsuited to that, the HTML quality is too unpredictable
- and trust..
  - untrusted applets cannot do it
  - an untrusted JWS app., *can* do it, but only with
the specific consent of the end-user. ]

.. Is the OP a known spammer or plagiarist?


Should I care? I did not accuse them of either.
(A question is a question, perhaps an implication -
but not an accusation.)

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