Re: Java applets in browser
I don't think that will work with Potato. There's a
glib conflict, even with Java 1.3.
It seems that if one isn't on the "bleeding" edge with
Java, applet support just isn't there. Honestly, it's
worse than similar complaints against Microsoft,
wherein I've had Java support since 7 years ago.
--- Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de> wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 16:07, Larry Smith wrote:
> > Help me understand this.
> >
> > Clear back with Netscape 4.75, which ran on the
> 2.2
> > kernel, Java was available for handling applets.
> >
> > It appears that unless I've hung on to that legacy
> > browser, the newer Mozilla, Opera, etc. can only
> do
> > Java with the Java 1.3 JDK from Sun, which
> requires a
> > newer glib that Debian makes available. (Unless
> one
> > is flirting with SID or something).
> >
> > Is this so? Or have I missed an easy way to add
> some
> > unknown java plugin to activate java in my
> browsers?
>
> I'm using Mozilla on woody with Sun's Java SDK
> 1.4.whatever without
> problems here. It's a bit strange to install the SDK
> from an rpm with
> alien, but once you're through this, you copy the
> plugin to Mozilla's
> plugin directory and it works.
>
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