On Feb 17, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Anastasia Coles wrote:
Folks,
I admit I don't know much about this but . . .
I'm running 10.2.6 on my Beige G3 and I often get "java" errors running IE 5. Like for instance I get error messages constantly when trying to use a university MOO (interactive site). When I've asked the tech guy at the university department he says that "Macs can't handle java well" -- I don't know if this is an OS problem or an IE problem or maybe some problem with my machine.
That's almost certainly an IE problem.
Try Safari, Mozilla, or Firefox (nee Firebird, the standalone Mozilla Browser ... I've been using that for a couple of days now and like it very much so far)
Your tech guy is only partially right, and if he didn't know well enough to ask if you were running OS X or OS 9 he's likely clueless about Macs, so I'd take what he said with a case of salt.
On pre-OSX Macs, Java was a problematic thing, as apple never supported any but early versions of the language, but under OSX it's far more standardized and stable. Java apps run better under OSX than they do on a PC, and OS X supports the very latest versions of the language.
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