On 11/16/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Waaaa... I've seen that applet before, and it worked fine. Today,
attempting to load that page in Firefox 2.0 froze the browser and pegged
the CPU until I killed the process after about 2 minutes. Konqueror
loaded the page, but the applet never finished loading. Even after 10
minutes it had not finished loading the 200K Jython library. (The
applet provides a convenient timer that shows it has been trying for the
last 10 minutes.)
Bryan, does this illustrate why Java applets are currently a really bad
idea? Again, it's not really Java at fault here, it's the poor
integration. I suspect the JVM isn't getting the correct proxy settings
from the browser, which explains Konqueror's behavior, but Firefox's
behavior with applets is very nasty.
Shane
Yikes! The same thing just happend to me. Applets suck! :-)
Hmmmm... This is crazy. I'm sure I could write a well behaved
applet, but that doesn't mean the next guy will. It shouldn't be
possible to blow up the browser. Lame.
Now I have a specific example to beat up people with on java.net...
-Brayn
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