From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Odd, I thought jview was only an applet viewer, not a proper VM.
> > Experience seems to indicate exactly that.
> It is certainly *supposed* to be a full VM, but it doesn't work all that
> well.
In (ulp!) defence of Micro$oft, I can see some rationale for limiting
jview's capabilities.
jview is just meant to be an applet viewer, which gives javascript a safe
'sandbox' in
which to play within Internet Exploiter.
Netscape's java behaviour is more intelligent - it prompts the user and asks
permission to access certain resources, eg file read/write.
Nevertheless, the Windows Installer should *never* *never* show jview in the
list of java interps. This would account for a high percentage of support
emails.
Also, there's a bug in the java selection screen - if the user selects a
java before the disk scan is finished, the installer ignores the user's
choice and selects the first one on the list (which always seems to be
jview).
Fixing these two bugs would eliminate a large percentage of windows new user
problems.
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