Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A very dark day indeed :-( Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:30:48 +0000 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <960ef14f-1fa8-43df-aca9-c6425d65cb70@googlegroups.com> <56b9f6b0$0$23733$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <9f2db0b1-914f-48dd-a51c-0a3e1a21ecaa@googlegroups.com> <56b9ff1b$0$23868$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <56ba12a8$0$23803$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net DxxpjV9Ajfb4Lju54gPVvguZG1dvg4ppWLEhvPGtsyYFYFKKOZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:EEst7iJ0m8Z/CMGMCSy+vxYYGPE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <56ba12a8$0$23803$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:33729 On 09/02/16 16:24, Silvio wrote: > On 02/09/2016 04:59 PM, Nigel Wade wrote: >> On 09/02/16 15:00, Silvio wrote: >>> No, it does not work at all. It is not a security prompt but a plain >>> "save file as" dialog I get with any content type >>> my browser does not understand. Apart from a saved jnlp file there is >>> nothing I can do from there. Never any mention of >>> running a Java application. >> >> That just means that your browser is not configured correctly. Configure >> it to handle jnlp with Java Web Start. >> If it can't be configured to do that then it's the browser which is >> broken, not JWS. Some are broken deliberately. >> >> Failing that, just run javaws with the correct URI. There's no need for >> a browser at all. >> >> >> >> > > Nope. Not unless I go through the trouble of installing all kinds of stuff manually. Windows and OSX come without Java > installed. Some Linux distros come with a recent OpenJDK but most don't. OpenJDK on Linux does not come with javaws, I > doubt the OSX version does. > > In the end Web start is only an option if you have a user who is really motivated to run your application. and how is that any different from: if you want to run any application you have to install that application first if you want to run flash videos you have to install flash first if you want to run any .NET application you have to install .NET first