Hi For quite some time I have been using a nifty java web application which shows the current time in your own personalized list of cities around the world at Time and Date.com < http://www.timeanddate.com/ >. You can personalize your list, keep the URL and use it over and over again. Since I chat regularly with people from here in the pacific northwest, Amsterdam, and Melbourne etc. this has been a great tool for getting some sense of time when I'm speaking with someone.
I made up a list of cities which reflected time across most of the world. They even allowed a linkable one which you could share: < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personalapplet.html?cities=16,152,136,951,18,47,25,31,64,51,417,75,70,77,821,286,105,103,837,104,367,843,127,155,234> There are two versions, a normal html version which is a static page. You need to reload the page to update it. There is also a java based version which is live and keeps updated to the second. I REALLY like this page and use it regularly. I was amazed at how well it worked because Java on Mac usually is pretty bad. For instance the embedded yahoo chat crashed regularly so I put up with the ghastly stand alone version. The page at Time and Date.com used to work in Safari and Camino. The page stopped working in Safari shortly after this A short time later, it stopped working in Safari and all I got was a broken java icon. Camino still worked. I was worried that it would not work after Java was integrated ino Camino. But i was pleasantly surprised to find that it still worked. However a few weeks ago it failed in Camino to. I get this error message: java.lang.NullPointerException at personalclock.init(personalclock.java) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:354) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552) This doesn't correspond to the last big java update from Apple which I won't have until I install Tiger (that's another issue with Apple not letting all its users have access to the latest Java update.) and it doesn't correspond to Java being integrated into Camino. Is there any hope that this might work again? Is this a Camino bug, or something Apple has done? Why do java web applications not work in Mac browsers when they work well on Windows and Linux browsers? I would really like to not have to tell my friends no Windows that I can't do the same things they can do in many java embedded pages. Cheers, David -- "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
