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 15:33:06 +0000

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Lew wrote:

Qu0ll wrote:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote in message news:7b304e3bfe13e@uwe...

The very fact you would consider the decision between
Swing/SWT to be a logical parallel, suggests that you
have little idea just how bizarre, quixotic and problematic
applets (in browsers) can be.

Well I have encountered problems with applets and browsers but so far I
see no real reason to abandon my quest to produce a really effective and
powerful applet that doesn't force the user to leave the browser
environment. Problematic they may be but I still love applets!

I cannot run applets at all from Firefox on my 64b Fedora system. I can run
Web Start apps.

Applets suck.

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.

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University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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