On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:40 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> >> 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... William,
I resent that statement and think it shows a misunderstanding about what is not working...The problem with the IcedTea browser plugin is associated with mishandling of data passing by the plugin. This means things are mangled or in many cases simply not passed completely from the browser to the applet. Another way of saying this is that IcedTea does not implement its APIs as specified (they still have major bugs to fix). The only way I would have to fix that is to rewrite the plugin code. There is a limit to how many projects one can take on, plus I'm probably not the best person to work on it. Basically, to make things work in IcedTea we would simply have to give up on the functions that don't work in it. It seems better to build things to work in the standard Java since the goal of IcedTea is to make it operationally equivalent, which they are fast approaching. My feeling is that the Linux community is jumping over to IcedTea as a standard prematurely. That said users have a relatively straightforward option for converting back to the standard Java if they need to (see my previous comments). You may have noticed that I have the same kinds of problems with IE which often does not abide by HTML or ECMAScript (JavaScript) standards. This does not mean I don't try to make things work in IE, but at some point you have to decide if the effort is worth it. I have and do spend a lot of time figuring out ways to make things work in as many environments as possible, but do not have infinite time. 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
