When in doubt, ask the user. Maybe the best thing is to have a third page:
if(XP)
show page 3, where user can pick one of 2 sites, With Java (recommended :-) or w/o Java (sucks)
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Volk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:30 PM
To: JDJList
Subject: [jdjlist] Windows XP (NT 5.1) and I.E. 6.0 and Java
To all:
Our company's web site has been designed to work with or without Java
Applets. The Java Applet based solution (JVM 1,02 and up) is faster, but
the no-applet (pure HTML, server-side) solution will do the job. If we
don't see Java in the client ... we don't use it.
Here's the problem.
We are seeing users with XP machines that don't tell us when they DON'T have
Java.
We test for Java via this Javascript statement (after FIRST checking that
Javascript is there):
if (navigator.javaEnabled())
What happens on some XP machines is that they will tell us they DO have Java
... when they DON'T ... and then they will prompt the user to see if they
want to download the Java plugin (sometimes). A bad thing.
My question is ... other than turning off Java when we see any 6.0/NT 5.1
combo out there (like we do for Opera, for other reasons) ... is there an
'approved' way of knowing if the XP machine DOES have Java installed?
Here's a URL to try it on:
http://zipproof.com/servlet/Zip/Review/demo
Thanks,
Bill Volk
ZipProof, Inc.
"Proofs and Approvals ... At the Speed of Light!"
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