Re: Problem with applets with Opera browser

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
10 Feb 2007 21:18:40 -0800
Message-ID:
<1171171119.946989.59290@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 11, 1:12 pm, "418...@cepsz.unizar.es" <418...@cepsz.unizar.es>
wrote:

I have some problems with applets


I am not surprised.

..in Opera.


Even less so.

..I just get a gray window
and nothing in it. The html page should be correct, as it works in
Internet Explorer (the applet is loaded there).


...Bwaaa-ha har, har. Hahhh, ha, ..huh?
You're not joking, are you?

At one stage, more than half the code of
IE was there to help guess 'what the web
designer really meant'. Although IE has
its (many) problems, it generally hides
errors in web pages.

Web developers should never use IE as a
test of 'does it work'*.

To find if your HTML is valid, check it
againts a DTD - like you can do here.
http://validator.w3.org/

* Having said that - I do it all the
time, but this is not about my broken
pages, it is about yours, and I generally
validate my pages, in any case.

..I have "Java enabled"
checked in the Options. Nothing appears in the Opera Java Console.


Does the applet print anything out?
Have you heard of web start?
Does the page use applet size specified
in %?
(delete next NN possible questions,
that can be answered by..)
You got an URL for this applet?

Andrew T.

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