It wasn't really a fight. They pretty quickly realized that applets needed
popup windows and came up with that solution in short order as a compromise.
2009/10/9 Angel Herráez <[email protected]>
> Hi Graeme
>
> That's imposed by Java (from some 1.6.x version onwards), I understand to
> avoid people
> use Java to make fake dialog boxes. A security measure for popup
> menus/windows.
> Nothing you can do to avoid it, and it will depend on which version of Java
> your users have
> installed.
>
> I can assure you, it was worst before (a flashing yellow border around all
> the popup). In the
> first implementation, they just disallowed the popup menu altogether. I
> think that Bob fought
> against it with the Java technical people, and this is what they produced.
>
>
>
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