----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] How to use JDK 1.2.2 with StarOffice52
> > If you look at the source that applet is not javascript, it is a
> > ScrollAd.Zip which SO Linux can not handle
> > Go to any page at www.zdnet.com , check the source and you will see that
> you
> > do indeed have support for javascript in SO.
> >
> > Charles
>
> Please pardon my ignorance, but I've just looked at the source and it's
> javascript that's used to call that applet (which is a java applet), why
> doesn't it show on SO? I'm not a java developer, but I've played a little
> with it and if you've got some type of jre installed, you should be able
to
> interpret applets. This isn't meant to be a stand-off, but a request for
> knowledge. This is something that has confused me for awhile, why IE can
> display pages beautifully and even Netscape under windows looks great;
boot
> into linux and it's another story - pages look like crap compared to the
> windows counterparts!
>
> Thanks, Mike
I think it is my ignorance not yours. How does one know when looking at
the source code on that page that the applet was done in Java.
When I have looked at the code on other sites , they have listed :
lang.<javascript> so I know it was done in Java but this page dosen't do
that.
I suppose to be able to view this type of applet in Linux one needs to
have some sort of MS VM clone installed
Maybe I have just been lucky but on both my systems pages display in SO
as well as in IE and in most cases load faster. You can and in some case
have to do more tweaking in linux in so far as fonts, sizes, DPI, etc. to
customize it to your preferences.
In my case I have used Netscape only if I had to(I don't like it) so I was
happy to get SO installed and running.
Charles :-)
