I'd attribute it to sloppy coding - or the requirements of pre-JavaFX media perhaps (I wouldn't know, I never touched media in Java before JFX)
I whipped this up yesterday: http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/subtitled-video-player/ It needs no security warning as its unsigned and requires no local privs. Indeed, if you use some of the stuff in the JNLP api, you can do a lot without needing something signed. On Feb 19, 4:55 pm, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > The other day my wife wanted to show me a movie trailer. I got > excited when I realized the video was being shown using in a Java > applet. But my excitement turned to dismay when I got the security > challenge: "This applet was signed by Vividas..." then "Click Trust to > run this applet and allow it unrestricted access to your computer". > This doesn't happen to me when I watch flash videos online... > > My question for the group: is the applet sandbox really insufficient > for an applet like this to show a video? Or is it just sloppy coding > on the applet developer's part? It's my belief that things like this > are one reason why applets have a bad name. > > Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
