P3D Re: Stereoscope Java applet and OCC is today (Tuesday)

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: H a r o l d B a i z e <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>This is what happens if you do not have Java 1.1 support.
>It is not part of the "typical" (default) install, of MS
>Internet Explorer (surprise- Microsoft doesn't want to make
>it easy to use a multi-platform non-Windows standard) you
>have to select the "Virtual Machine" option from the
>custom install.


The problem is not lack of Java support.  If Java were not enabled, the
applet would do nothing at all, not malfunction.

From: David Motz <david.motz@xxxxxxx>

>The stereoscope applet will work with IE 4.01 on Win95/98 only after
you
>upgrade the java virtual machine.  I would guess that the same is true
on
>NT.  The upgrade file is at the following location:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/javavmx86/en/javavmx86.htm
>
>I have tried Harold's gallery and the applet worked just fine.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that it is totally obnoxious
for an applet or program to misbehave so badly?  Proper behavior would
be for it to check if it has the required support, and simply post a
message if it doesn't, or at the very least, refuse to run.  NOT fill
the screen with garbage making it difficult to kill.  Honestly, the
first time it happened I thought my computer had been infected with a
virus!  This is poor programming.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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