Hey!
Your posting is old, but I finally got to it. It seems no one responded.
All of this can be found in the JDK docs and does not have anything
to do with servlets. That's probably why you didn't get a response.
The reason that I am responding is that I believe there is much value
in using client-side application and servlets. Nic, you can block your
ears, if you want.:>) So when someone asks about applets/servlets I
respond if I can help.
Something for you to consider, it is well known that Microsoft takes many
liberties regarding the specs. they invented everything you know :>), and it's
their business model for eliminating the competition.
When doing a show document, the spec., last time I read it, was
you must use a fully qualified URL.
The behavior you are experiencing is indicative of not adhering
to this requirement. Netscape is doing this correctly. IE is not.
I do a good amount of code and my personal policy is to implement it
for Netscape and when it is running good then I check it out for IE.
My experience has been that Netscape is closer to industry standards
than IE. Now that Netscape is open-source it is even more imperative
that we design to Netscape and then make our code also work for IE, and
not the other way around.
Sans adieu,
Danny Rubis
Nelson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am creating a system that uses servlets and applets together, and I have
> found that everything works fine in IE, but when I use Netscape things just
> don't work as expected.
>
> In one of my applets it gets a response from a servlet. If the servlet
> sends back an "everything is ok" response then the applet should call the
> doGet() method of another servlet via:
>
> getAppletContext().showDocument(url, "_parent");
>
> Now this does what it should in IE, but in netscape this line is executed,
> but nothing happens, netscape just does nothing - it does not hang, because
> I can still manually type in a url. In fact if I type in the url that I
> pass to showDocument() then the system proceeds as I want. (How do I know
> it does showDocument()? well I have a System.err.println statement before
> and after showDocument, and they are both displayed to the plugin console).
>
> Can anyone explain what is going on? Does anyone have the same problem?
>
> I am using IE 5.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.08, I am using the Java Plugin 1.3.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Nelson
>
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