Re: CNET: Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome

2013-09-29 Thread Joe McGlynn
Applets, whether old-school applets that are deployed with an HTML tag or modern JNLP applets do require the plugin. Web Start applications (JWS), which are deployed using JNLP but run outside of the browser, do not require the plug-in. They are usually launched using mime type associations

Re: CNET: Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome

2013-09-25 Thread Mark Fortner
Hi Daniel, I guess everyone is still too caught up in the javaone frenzy to reply. We'll probably convert our web start applet into an application. All of the lighter-weight stuff may get migrated to html5 or we might look at a widget framework as a container for those applets. Depends on the

Re: CNET: Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome

2013-09-25 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:55:39 +0200, Tom Eugelink t...@tbee.org wrote: Nope, just too busy, period :-) I have an applet that I use for hour registration. It has been working for me for years, and it would be a real bummer if that needs to be rewritten (unnecessary hours). I'd probably

Re: CNET: Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome

2013-09-25 Thread Joe McGlynn
You're correct, this only affects applets (Java apps that run inside the web page). We've just learned about this move from NPAPI, so it's too early to speculate what we'll do. We are certainly going to evaluate what it will take to support PPAPI and what the tradeoffs are. Joe On Sep 25,