[piccolo2d-dev] Re: changes to PPath, add PShape and PArea

2010-07-21 Thread cmal...@pixelzoom.com
Mac users are only 14% of PhET users; 83% are Windows. 80% of PhET's Mac users are on Intel, but most are running Mac OS 10.5. Mac OS 10.6 is the first version to install Java 1.6 as the default (and only) Java version. Mac OS 10.5 has both Java 1.5 and 1.6 installed, but Java 1.5 is the default

Re: [piccolo2d-dev] Re: changes to PPath, add PShape and PArea

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Heuer
cmal...@pixelzoom.com wrote: > PhET's customers are the educational market, which typically lags > behind the technology curve.  We only recently changed our minimum > system requirement to include Java 1.5.  So I suspect that it will be > a long time (possibly years) before we change that requir

[piccolo2d-dev] Re: changes to PPath, add PShape and PArea

2010-07-20 Thread cmal...@pixelzoom.com
PhET's customers are the educational market, which typically lags behind the technology curve. We only recently changed our minimum system requirement to include Java 1.5. So I suspect that it will be a long time (possibly years) before we change that requirement to Java 1.6, and only once we're