Egon, As you probably know Sun developed a product called the Java Plug-in. They developed it to get around political issues with Microsoft and to allow deployment of newer Java applets on older browsers. This plug-in gives you access to the latest jvm on older browsers.
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin Now the bad news - the plug-in needs to be installed on the client. + Fortunately, there is an automated installation scheme under IE - HTML pages need to be modified to specify the plugin ... yuck + For those who have a lot of HTML pages, Sun has an automated tool to modify HTML pages to specify the java plug-in I have no idea what the profile of jmol user community looks like and what versions of browsers they are using. So I may be out of line. But I'll make a rather bold proposal: - we release version 5 with the jvm support that you indicated. - after version 5, we require jvm 1.3 or higher for both the application and the applet - those who wish to take advantage of the latest jmol features are encouraged to upgrade their browser - those who *need* to run the latest version of jmol on older browsers can install the Java Plug-in and modify their html pages to specify the plug-in > On Saturday 16 November 2002 02:17, mth wrote: >> Which versions of Java do we officially support? >> >> There are some places in the display code which explicitly test for >> version >= 1.2. In other places, calls are made which assume >= 1.2. >> >> Also, I got tired of seeing the "DEPRECATED - >> setBackingStoreEnabled(...)" when compile Jmol.java. So I took a look >> to see what it was referring to. It *is* deprecated, but only as of >> 1.3. >> >> What Java versions are people using and what is our stance? > > For the application we can use 1.3 or higher... But for the applet this > is different... Older browsers do not have a JVM above 1.1.x ... > therefore, the classes required for the applet may not use newer Java > stuff... > > And this is actually an remaining issue in the Jmol 5 version... > somewhere Vector.clear() is used, and IE 5.0 does not support that > because of the older JVM... > > Egon -------------------------------------------------- Miguel Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] c/Peņa Primera 11-13 esc dcha 6B 37002 Salamanca Espaņa Spain -------------------------------------------------- telefono casa 923 27 10 82 movil 650 52 54 58 -------------------------------------------------- To call from the US dial 9:00 am Pacific US = home 011 34 923 271 082 12:00 noon Eastern US = cell 011 34 650 525 458 6:00 pm Spain -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
