Hello,
I've deployed the XXE 4.9.1 applet with a modification for one of our
customers... only to find out that our customer uses Mac computers
with OS X... and that the applet didn't work (the file is locked, and
gotten, but "nothing" appears in the browser window).
I've reproduced the test myself with:
- a 27in. desktop Mac ('borrowed' a few minutes from my kind neighbour)
- at least 4 different Mac Book Pro laptops with a mix of OS X Leopard
and OS X Lion ('borrowed' a few minutes from my kind students)
- OS X Lion running under VMWare Workstation (gotten from the net ;-))
All these tests were performed in all machines with a mix of Safari,
Firefox and Chrome (all at their latest versions), and the result was
always the same:
After being asked for credentials to access the file (so part of the
XXE applet *is* working OK) I didn't see anything else in the Java
console (which I've asked it to open and set log level to 5), nor on
the browser window (on OS X Lion + Chrome, I see the desktop
background - like if the window became transparent - where the XXE
applet should be).
Thinking that probably my extension was the problem, I've tested with
the official demo applets available at the XXE web site
(http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/xxe_applet.html), with the same
results: no XXE on the browser, just a blank (or gray) area.
That same web page states clearly (and I quote):
"As an applet, XXE has been tested against: Internet Explorer 6+,
Firefox 3+, Google Chrome 5+, Safari 5+/Mac OS X, always with the most
recent release of the Java runtime 1.6+."
All the Macs I've tested on had Java 1.6.0b26 on them (latest
available from Apple, neither Sun, nor Oracle, distribute Java for
Macs), and as I said above, I've tested with the latest versions of
Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
I even switched the plugin preference from the 64 bit one (default on
all newer Macs) to the 32 bit one with the same results.
I cannot ask our customer to throw the Macs and get PCs, and the XXE
applet is supposed to work under Mac OS X... what am I doing wrong?
Help please. Thanks in advance for your answer.
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Fabián Mandelbaum
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