Posted by JWS on 11/02/07 14:08

mbstevens wrote:

> Most Linuxes don't come with browsers' Java installed.
> Are you sure it is installed? -- easy enough to do if it isn't.

I am pretty sure:

-- I installed Java 6 (a.k.a. 1.6) on my Linux system.
-- I actually wrote the applet myself (on my system).
-- It runs perfectly well on my system. But it does not print
from Firefox on Linux (it does not print from Firefox when I
boot the computer into Windows, either; so far it only prints
from IE7 on Windows XP).

> This is a reason you might think about whether an applet will
> be usable to all your visitors. I stopped using them years ago.

Yes, from Googling I got the impression that there is a general
dislike of Java applets nowadays, among Web page creators. I do
not quite understand why. Could you elaborate? What alternatives
do you use for putting interactive programs on the Web? I am just
a Java newbie (what you could call a "very very late adopter") but
I was pretty impressed that my applet (which animates fairly
complicated mathematical things) asks nothing more from the server
than to serve up one file, of only 6003 bytes -- less than even a
small .png, .gif, or .jpg picture, for instance.

Regards, Jan

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