Safari and Firefox sharing the same Java cache???
This doesn't explain the object vs applet thing, however.
Otis
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On Dec 30, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears that Safari has a very strange "feature" -- at least on my
> machine, everything works fine using http, but with file://, if I download
> Jmol, open the zip file, extract the jsmol directory, and start simple2.htm,
> and immediately clicking on the "Signed" link to get the signed version, the
> applet fails to load.
>
> However, if I first open the applet in Firefox, then Safari will open it.
> If Safari has opened the file, and I change the directory name, then the next
> time I try this, Safari will not start the applet. However, if I then open
> that local page in Firefox and then try again in Safari, all is good.
>
> What could possibly be going on? I don't know. But the fact that this is a
> new problem suggested to me that it's something recent. I remembered that
> recently I changed Safari settings to using the <applet> tag instead of
> <object>. Well, guess what? When I switch back to using the <object> tag,
> everything works normally. No directory problems; no load issues. Go figure.
>
> For whatever reason, it looks like we cannot use the <applet> tag in Safari.
> I'm sure I had a reason for switching to that, but I can't remember that.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
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