David, > Just been browsing the Java pages on the wiki and confirming to myself the > Sun Java version installs but the plugin does not load. A pity, as I have > installed on a school server an excellent UNESCO CD of educational materials > "Strengthening ICTs in Schools and Schoolnet Project in the ASEAN Setting" > which has hundreds of nice educational applets. Seems the last recorded > activity on getting Java to work was about 5 months ago... or can anyone > update me?
You have it right. The Java plugin does not work in the current Browse activity. This is apparently a case of compilation mismatches, and my understanding is that it won't go away until Browse is recompiled with a different library base. This bug still exists with Joyride and the latest Browse build. However, Java applications do run under Sugar if you install Java. The plugin does run with a separately installed browser. There is a lot of educational content available on the Internet that depends on the plugin. I realize that Java doesn't meet OLPC's definition of 'free', but it should be supported. An interesting sidenote in Joyride -- it used to be that Firefox was excluded in the OLPC yum repository. It no longer is, and 'yum install firefox' now gets you Firefox 3. I wonder when the Browse activity will be built on this core. I feel your pain, Bob _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
