On Tuesday 01 January 2002 20:29, Nathan Meyers wrote: >VolatileImage is a client-side technology, and Sun is trying to regain >the client-side foothold it lost by "winning" its lawsuit against >Microsoft. In the battle for the desktop, winning Windows developers >with faster graphics is way more important than spending the time fixing >VolatileImage on Linux and Solaris. If it helps create demand for getting >a bundled (modern) JDK back into Windows, it will be a brilliant victory. > >The most likely path to a fix is for someone in the Blackdown realm to >take on this nasty job and submit the fix back to Sun. This might not >be too bad a problem with the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) libraries - >but it'll need to be taken on by some adventurous soul who's signed the >appropriate Sun licenses. > >Nathan >
Thanks for replying. Ok that makes sense. I still find it pretty disgusting that Sun seem to have done this with total disregard for Java developers who don't run Windows. I just hope someone at Blackdown finds the time to fix this.....is there any hope of an attempt being made to do this in the blackdown release of 1.4 ? Jordan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
