Re: Java Web Start for Mac is a disaster
From: Steve W. Jackson (stevewjackson_at_charter.net)
Date: 12/24/03
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:17:32 -0600
In article <QlaGb.63686$aT.46191@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Andrew Thompson" <andrew64@bigNOSPAMpond.com> wrote:
>:"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote in message
>:news:stevewjackson-8CDFA9.12185223122003@news.fu-berlin.de...
>:> In article <69aEb.56802$aT.17624@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>:> "Andrew Thompson" <andrew64@bigNOSPAMpond.com> wrote:
>:.....
>:> For some reason, the "plug-in" that Apple provides doesn't satisfy your
>:> page's check for plug-in version, so each time I hit that page I get an
>:> annoying page popping up in front of the main one telling me that I need
>:> a newer plug-in.
>:
>:I have 'rolled my own' primitive, but apparently effective
>:replacement for Sun's mehtods of ensuring JVM versions.
>:
>:I merely specify a major Java version number in a hidden
>:Applet and redirect to another page if the installed Java is
>:not new enough.
>:
>:>..But when I actually clicked the download link, after a
>:> brief delay I got a security warning.
>:
>:A rather ugly one, at that, eh?
>:
>:> ..When I gave the OK, it downloaded
>:> and ran just fine. Now I just have to hope that your program didn't do
>:> anything malicious while I was running it. :-)
>:
>:[ ..right now my software is analysing your system and
>:preparing a report for Bill Gates as it writes 'Java based
>:viruses' all over your system....
>:
>:Bwah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha! (S**t! I wish I could keep a
>:straight face as I'm saying stuff like that - it'd be so
>:much more funnier..) ]
>:
>:Thanks Steve! If I read your comments right, the page
>:seems to work as I expect. Much appreciated. :-)
>:
>:--
>:Andrew Thompson
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>:
>:
Happy to help.
= Steve =
-- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama
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