After weeks of trying to figure this stuff out, I break down and ask the
List for help.
Can any of you see a HelloUniverse applet at
http://www.j3d.org/applets/HelloUniverse.html ?
I see only a black screen.
I'm not surprised: When I look at the source code for the HTML page, the body
of it looks like this:
[=====snip=====]
<!--"CONVERTED_APPLET"-->
<!-- CONVERTER VERSION 1.0 -->
<!-- [many '-'s omitted] -->
<!--
<APPLET CODE = "HelloUniverse.class" WIDTH = 256 HEIGHT = 256 ALIGN =
middle >
<blockquote>
<hr>
If you were using a Java-capable browser,
you would see Hello Universe! instead of this paragraph.
<hr>
</blockquote>
</APPLET> [newline removed so as not to confuse mail] -->
<!--"END_CONVERTED_APPLET"-->
[===== snip =====]
(Text in square brackets is mine)
This looks to me like 5 HTML comments, the 4th of which contains an
otherwise valid APPLET
tag. Why should any of my browsers (Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6.0, Opera 3.0,
IE 5.0) know
to look for this kind of embedded tag? Although I've installed the Java
Plug-in 1.3.0-C, my
browsers are blissfully unaware of any applet-related information on this page.
Trying to figure out what this means, I looked at the Java Plug-In HTML
specification at
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.2/docs/tags.html . This mentions
OBJECT and
EMBED tags for MSIE and Netscape, respectively, but never this CONVERTED_APPLET
stuff.
Besides the HelloUniverse applet mentioned above, I also don't see Fred
Klingener's
J3D applets at http://www.Brockeng.com/VMech/simple.htm and related pages.
Yet Fred
acts as if other people could see applets there; he even hand-modified his
pages to ensure
this because Sun's HTML Converter
(http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/features.html)
apparently doesn't.
I feel as if I'm the victim of a conspiracy of the world against me and my
PC. Can anyone
enlighten me, please?
Thanks a lot,
-Carl-
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