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Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Sep 8th, 2005, 4:38pm
 
I am having problems displaying a Processing applet on Internet Explorer and Firefox. These browsers on the Mac just freeze. In Safari it works fine...
I don't if it's because I get the path to the java files from a database, but I don't see why it won't work.

here is my <applet> tag:
<applet
code="BoxWords2.java"
codebase="img/BoxWords2/applet/"
width="500"
height="500"
archive="BoxWords2.jar">
   <param name="image" value="img/BoxWords2/applet/loading.gif" />
   <param name="boxmessage" value="Loading Processing software..." />
   <param name="boxbgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
   <!-- This is the message that shows up when people don't have
    Java installed in their browser. Any HTML can go here
    (i.e. if you wanted to include an image other links,
    or an anti-Microsoft diatribe. -->
        To view this content, you need to install Java from <a href="http://   java.com">java.com</a>
 </applet>
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I basically copied the index.html which is exported from Processing and added the paramenter "codebase". My .java and .jar files reside on a different folder, and the HTML is generated with PHP because I get the paths from a database.

Has anyone had a similar problem?

Thanks,
pappo
Re: Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Reply #1 - Sep 8th, 2005, 9:51pm
 

There are know issues with this:

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=SoftwareBugs;action=display;num=1126025268

I cheated by using p68 running java version 1.3*, but this is just a work around.
Re: Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Reply #2 - Sep 8th, 2005, 10:28pm
 
wait, that doesn't make sense.. i responded to your issue over in the other thread, mark..

there should be no problems with applets created using processing rev 92 and ie/firefox on the mac. this was a problem in rev 85, but should have been fixed in 86, unless it has somehow returned.
Re: Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Reply #3 - Sep 8th, 2005, 11:51pm
 

I'm still on 91, does that make a difference? Sorry, I didn't see your reply on the other thread, I've just responded, as my problem seems to have resolved itself, but constantly flushing the browser and then reloading, just kinda started working?

No idea why!
Re: Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Reply #4 - Sep 9th, 2005, 3:56am
 
allllllrighty.. so i've found it.

some java 1.4-specific code snuck in sometime in a recent release. i'm gonna have to work really hard to avoid this in the future. what a pain.

but i've found and fixed it, so rev 93 may have to happen really soon.

i'm moving this thread over to the bugs section of the board, and it's in the bugs db:
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=146
Re: Applet problems with Firefox and IE (mac)
Reply #5 - Sep 12th, 2005, 10:11am
 
thanks a lot for the response mark and fry.

yeah, i tried rev 92 and it didn't work. i will be waiting for rev 93 then.
it's just a bummer that ie has such a dominant user base. for all i care i could just stick with safari.

peace.
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