More fun (not!) with JRE
Dear Debianistas
A wee while ago, some of you were kind and patient in helping me out in
my efforts to access a website that relied on Java (JRE). Despite your
best efforts, I am still unable to access the site in the way the
developers (and the course administrators) expect me to. It is supposed
to be a chat window of some sort, and I tested it from work today, and
it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. I don't know if I am
the only one with these issues, and I'd love to point you in the
direction of the site, but it is password protected and in good
conscience, I cannot give out the logon details here.
I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course
admin about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance
learning option, and I was wondering if there are any developers/people
in the know here who have any substantive arguments against the use of
JRE? On the target web-page, they have a long list of error codes, etc.
and ways of fixing these (allegedly) which amount to updating to the
latest JRE, and this suggests that others have also found this to be buggy.
It is bad enough that so many training courses and universities still
develop these distance learning courses with only Windows (or at most
with Mac) in mind, but then to get stuck and excluded because of some
crummy JRE applet not functioning as it should just really pisses me
off. I'd like to raise this issue to the course admins awareness, and
would appreciate any input if you feel you have a contribution to make.
Or, alternatively, is it just me and I'm merely being a trifle grumpy in
my old(er) age?
Thanks
Andy
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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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