On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:41:45 AM UTC-5, P Purkayastha wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:24:09 AM UTC+8, Jonathan wrote: >> >> Test server at http://gutow.no-ip.org:8080 is up again. >> >> On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:31:27 PM UTC-5, Eviatar wrote: >>> >>> The applet does work on IcedTea 6, but some of the mesh and color >>> options don't, as I mentioned. But yes, I'll try out Java 6 and see how >>> that goes. >> >> I may have to try it again. IcedTea is definitely improving if your >> experience is any indication. >> > > This is not good for linux distributions because many of the linux > distributions have defaulted to IcedTea for java and that's what will be > installed by default. Going forward, it will start needing more manual > setup to get oracle/sun java installed (that means no official support in > most cases). >
I agree this is a problem for Linux users. I know that the IcedTea project is aware of the problems with loading many applets and Javascript <-> applet communication using the IceTea plugin. From reading the bugs list, it appears they may be testing some fixes in version 7. I haven't yet set up a machine with the beta IcedTea to see if that fixes the problems. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that IcedTea will start working better. Prior versions would not even run the Jmol application. Now Jmol runs and the applet loads and has some communication with Javascript. >From my perspective as a Java application developer, the Oracle Java is the official version and we work hard to maintain compatibility with that. It is up to the IcedTea people to have IcedTea be equivalent. Jonathan -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
