What a relief! What great sense. I thought i must have been on Mars ;) How stellar it would be if Sun or sunone could really put this at the highest priority. I think it would make all the difference for them, and java.. truly. To think that even a lot of programmers waste immense, needless time with this. What a loss...
Verdius --- John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin, > > It's a regular problem I've seen over and over - applets > tend to want > whichever version of HTMLConverter was used to create the > webpage - even > if it is a lower version than what the person has > installed. > > I still feel that "distribution" is the WORST problem of > Java. It's a > nightmare to support anything other than a closed > environment. Java is > fine for internal use in a customer where I can update and > control which > version of Java is installed on every PC, but for mass > distribution? > Scary!!! > > - John Wright > Starfire Research > > Justin Couch wrote: > > > > Alessandro Borges wrote: > > > Why the page > http://code.j3d.org/examples/terrain/applet.html insist to > > > install the old JRE 1.2.2 even when I have JRE 1.3.+ > ??? > > > > That's odd. I've got another email complaining that it > requires 1.3 and > > won't accept 1.4..... > > > > No idea what's going on, probably something to do your > plugin setup as > > the page explicitly says 1.3.x > > > > <OBJECT > classid="clsid:CAFEEFAC-0013-0001-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA" > > WIDTH = "600" HEIGHT = "400" > > > codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3.1/jinstall-131-win32.cab#Version=1,3,1,0";> > > <PARAM NAME = CODE VALUE = "FractalTerrainApplet" > > > <PARAM NAME = ARCHIVE VALUE = "j3d-org.jar" > > > > > <PARAM NAME="type" > VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.3"> > > <PARAM NAME="scriptable" VALUE="false"> > > <COMMENT> > > <EMBED type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.3" > > CODE = "FractalTerrainApplet" > > ARCHIVE = "j3d-org.jar" > > WIDTH = "600" HEIGHT = "400" > > scriptable=false > > > > > pluginspage="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3.1/plugin-install.html";> > > <NOEMBED> > > > > Anyway, that will be a non-issue shortly. I have a flight > to the US > > tomorrow and I'm hoping I can spend a lot of that time > reworking all the > > j3d.org pages to use CSS and turn this all back to > regular <APPLET> tags > > and the new JavaPlugin. > > > > -- > > Justin Couch > http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > > Java Architect & Bit Twiddler > http://www.yumetech.com/ > > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer > http://www.j3d.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines > now. > > Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every > organism > > processes data according to its domain, its environment; > you, with > > all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's > universe..." > > - Greg > Bear, Slant > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > =========================================================================== > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general > help, send email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the > message "help". > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general > help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the > message "help". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
