On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Jonathan <jgu...@new.rr.com> wrote: > > 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.
I'm glad Javascript developers don't have that perspective... > > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
