Internet Explorer: Java Applet Champion?
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSunday, August 29, 2004
Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.
I realized that several applet functionalities are not supported by either Mozilla or Firefox browsers. In fact Internet Explorer seems to have the best support for Java applets!
Note: I have jdk1.5 plugin. The applets were deployed using the applet tag. However switching to object and embed tags didn’t help either.
Your input is appreciated.
What doesn’t work.
Mozilla 1.1a
- resize()
- showDocument()
- showStatus()
FireFox 0.9.1
- resize()
- showStatus()
Internet Explorer 6.0
- resize()
I had posted a solution for the applet resize problem in an earlier blog entry.
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August 31, 2004: 3:32 am
> Another question is whether it’s Mozilla or Sun’s fault; if a plugin doesn’t call things, it doesn’t work. If it was the plugin’s fault, I wonder why was it working in Internet Explorer? Could it be that Sun is favoring IE |
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August 30, 2004: 5:50 pm
Mozilla 1.1a is ancient. Try downloading Moz 1.7.2 and firefox 0.9.3. dunno if this will change things, but it may. Another question is whether it’s Mozilla or Sun’s fault; if a plugin doesn’t call things, it doesn’t work. |
Angsuman