John Nelson wrote:
> Well I guess I'm not being very clear here. Let's say I'm an applet
> developer and the only operating system that I have is Linux. The new SDK
> isn't available for Linux, only Windows and since it's an SDK, the upgrade
> is on the developer side NOT the runtime plugin downloaded by the user.
>
> Therefore as a Linux applet developer, I can't use it.
>
> And this is really WEIRD considering that Java is "develop once, use
> anywhere"... but Linux and Solaris folks don't even get the "develop once"
> part. :-) Of course I'm assuming that parallel SDK's for Linux, Solaris,
> etc will be available at some point in time.
>
> Or am I still missing something?
>
> -- John
John,
As far as I know, the 'a' in 1.3.1_01a is probably some bug
fix that is only needed for Windows, and maybe even only in
the tools that come onyl with the SDK.
However most if not all of the platforms should have a 1.3.1_01
version available I think. Though I doubt functionality was
added in _01 bug fix release either.
It's my impression that Mozilla, and Netscape 6.x both will
use the Java plugin for *all* applets no matter how the HTML
is written, because they don't have a JVM built in. I don't
think this is a feature that was added to the Java Plugin
at all. It's just how Mozilla and Netscape 6 are architected.
Netscape 4 and versions of IE have a JVM that they use for
the APPLET tags and therefore need another mechanism to force
the browser to use the plugin.
Therefore for users who are still using an older browser, if
you need your applet to run inside the Plugin JVM, you'll still
need to 'convert' your HTML. Unless you're happy with only
letting Netscape 6/Mozilla users at your applets :)
All that being said, I should note that while I do work for
Sun, I have really no more info on anythis than any of you do,
And I could be mistaken on what I've just said.
-Kyle
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