Turadg wrote: > If we're going to keep the 1.5+ spec, we need another app that works > on 1.4 that users can run to get their system set up correctly. Think > that'll be possible? I'm imagining you click on that; it checks your > OS; if it's OSX it makes sure you have Java 5 and that it's set as the > default handler for JNLPs. > > I write this now because Jim just called me from in front of a laptop > with Java 1.4.2 that he wanted to use to demo to a chemistry professor > interested in SAIL. He got the "only JNLP version 1.0 is supported" > message and had no idea what to do. > Well at least it is better than when Carolyn called and said: "I just downloaded 30mb of stuff over the last 15 minutes and got this message, oh and the presentation is in 15 minutes". The problem was that she had 10 macs with 1.4 installed, and the message was some null pointer or something that had no meaning at all. At least in Jim's case the error should have come up before webstart tried to download anything. > Whether the Windows version does the smart message to help you > upgrade, the Mac version doesn't, so we need to make or find an app to > do it. Who wants to? :) > http://telscenter.org/jira/browse/OWL-270 > I'm pretty sure that if the spec is set 1.5+, windows machines will get a similar message to the OSX. 1.4 will give up because it can't handle the spec, so it won't even know that it needs to suggest upgrading to java 1.5. However the most common problem case is OSX since most windows computers still don't have Java installed to start with, so people just go and get the latest.
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