This is a decision Apple has clearly made for its customers :-) In the consumer market, ignoring Mac OS X might not be possible, but in a lot of realms the Mac is totally ignored due to issues like this.
I used to use a Mac as my primary platform and gripe about this. That was before cross-platform technologies like Java were well established, so I didn't blame Apple -- now I do at least when it comes to Java. [When someone writes an app against Windows APIs they were setting out to pretend that Windows == the world, so I clearly still blame the app vendor if they don't bother to port at that point.] That said, Apple recently released Java 6 Update 7 (only for their newer boxes, of course), so if you only care about the "up to date" portion of Apple's market Update 10 /may/ not be all that far off. Cute thing is you'll never ever know until it is out as Apple couldn't possibly give developers any clue as to what to expect from them -- such consideration is not part of Apple's "style". -- Jess Holle Neil Bartlett wrote: > Bear in mind that relying on new features in the latest Java release > (such as draggable applets) will mean Mac OS users won't be able to > use your application for several years, unless you write your > application to degrade gracefully where those features are not > present. > > Rgds > Neil > > On Oct 19, 6:28 pm, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It would look like Java 6 Update 10 is finally out, which is great >> news for us, since we're trying to use draggable applets for one of >> our projects. >> >> However, it doesn't look like they've made the JRE really easy to find >> for non-technical consumers yet. Hopefully that'll follow shortly. >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
