You might look at the macport or homebrew projects as they sport the building of many unix packages. I happen to use homebrew here and have built emacspeak to run on my mac. Haven't tried java or anyh of that but it might be as simple as entering the command: brew jave and it goes out and gets the necessary dependencies and all that. Like I say, not sure if they have build scripts for java or not. Might give that a look.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:37:05PM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: > amending my last email... > > I wonder if I can snag the source packages for JDK, JRE and other related > packages from the OpenBSD project ports tree? since both OS X and OpenBSD > have the same genetic OS roots, and the execution environments are > essentially the same from a developer's point of view. This is something I > may need to look at. > > -eric > > On Apr 11, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > > I don't use Hotmail but I should clarify that JavaScript and Java are two > > different things which, unfortunately, share a similar name. Javascript is > > an interpreted language and the engine is baked into each browser so Safari > > uses one that is not the same as Chrome. They all adhere to a common > > standard from ECMA so some folks refer to it as ECMAScript. Java on the > > other hand is a compiled language used to build apps and servers. It has > > been used in the past to make 'applets' which run inside the browser but > > there is really little need for that anymore and is generally frowned upon > > as a waste of resources. I doubt that Hotmail uses any Java in their pages > > and you can verify this by turning it off in the Java Preferences utility. > > I suspect Hotmail, like most other web apps, is just a boatload of > > javascript. > > > > That said, I did try logging into a hotmail account and while I found the > > navigation and UI painful, Safari didn't crash on me. This was on my laptop > > running 10.7 with all the updates. Might be something else throwing things > > for a loop. I did get a Safari Busy for about 2 seconds when I first went > > to the inbox but that might be because the test account had a lot of spam > > in it. > > > > CB > > > > On 4/11/12 5:05 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> well folks. > >> > >> it seems that I have run up against this brick wall. so I started > >> troubleshooting why hotmail.com causes my browser to crash. > >> according to the error reporting console in webkit, hotmail.com makes > >> several calls to javascripts that aren't included with Apple's JRE. this > >> means that some or all of hotmail may be inaccessible at random times. I > >> even disabled javascript altogether and found that the entire hotmail site > >> displayed as a blank scroll area. What this means is that hotmail isn't > >> going to be very usable for any future versions of javascript on OS X. > >> > >> also, I try to hit the contact us link and the browser immediately crashes > >> here. > >> > >> what oracle (owners of sun java) needs to do is enforce some standard that > >> requires that everyone use supported calls to javascripts. I am so bloody > >> tired of having to deal with apple centric JRE, microsoft specific java > >> code and the version that I can get to work in linux (which is a full > >> version).it seems to me that everyone who uses java code needs to be > >> operating on the same standards. this would eliminate a lot of problems, > >> especially for us OS X screen reader users. to give you guys an idea how > >> bad it is, I can't even give site feedback because their javascript opens > >> a frame that locks you in a loop trying to fill out the required text > >> fields. > >> > >> -eric > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
