Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:01:59 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk> To: robinson@netrinsics.com Cc: markd@lutris.com, java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Java applets in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200105092201.XAA37995@fdy2.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010509142155.A90117@elephant.netrinsics.com> (message from Michael Robinson on Wed, 9 May 2001 14:21:55 %2B0800)
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>On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:21:43PM -0700, Mark Diekhans wrote: >> Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> writes: >> > My understanding is that there is no way under FreeBSD to view modern >> > java applets in a modern web browser. Is that more or less correct? >> >> Not correct at all; For one, Linux netscape runs with zero problems. >> (of course don't know exactly what modern means). >Linux Communicator 4.x (which, in my personal opinion, is not >particularly modern) supports JDK 1.1 (which is absolutely not >modern). Linux Netscape 6.01 is dynamically linked against Linux >shared objects (which means you would have to install an entire Linux >X/GTK environment just to run the browser, at which point, why not >just run Linux). The source to the Netscape plugin is provided in the JDK 1.3.1 source bundle. It isn't tied to a particular version of the JDK, so you could build it against the native 1.2.2 beta one. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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