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Re: Signing an applet

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Subject	Re: Signing an applet
Date	Sat, 21 Dec 2013 08:35:22 +0800
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On 12/18/2013 7:08 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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> I don't think Oracle is really changing anything regarding applets.

In order to cater for the inadequacies and introduced vulnerabilities of 
WebStart and JNLP Oracle have knee-jerked their way into destroying the 
sandboxed paradigm and made Applets almost impossible to activate 
without reciting some incantation while waving a dead chicken over your 
head :-(

For example: -
https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/liveconnect_changes_in_7u45

> Applets has not been mainstream for more than a decade.

Unless your eyes are open and can see websockets and worker-threads are 
a joke and you have an appreciation of the power of Java on the client.

>
> And JavaScript does not care. It is already 10000 more widely used
> than Java applets.

Cheese definitely is used a lot more than chalk. Or "Why use a 
screw-driver when you have a perfectly good hammer?"

>
> Arne

Cheers Richard Maher.

BTW. I think the interesting one to watch will be Chrome's threatened 
removal of the NPAPI in 2014.

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

Google, Apple, and Microsoft know how powerful the Java plugin is. Just 
a shame Oracle doesn't.
>
>

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Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 08:40 -0500
  Re: Signing an applet Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-13 09:52 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 10:12 -0500
      Re: Signing an applet Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-13 10:30 -0500
      Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 16:22 -0500
        Re: Signing an applet lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-14 21:24 +0000
  Re: Signing an applet lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-13 15:08 +0000
  Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 10:11 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-13 10:19 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-13 15:27 +0000
      Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-13 11:08 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 16:27 -0500
  Re: Signing an applet Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2013-12-14 00:11 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-14 11:41 +0000
      Re: Signing an applet Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2013-12-15 22:22 -0500
    Re: Signing an applet Hiram Hunt <hiramhunt@verizon.net> - 2013-12-14 09:32 -0500
      Re: Signing an applet Hiram Hunt <hiramhunt@verizon.net> - 2013-12-14 09:39 -0500
        Re: Signing an applet Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-12-14 15:48 +0100
    Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-15 00:04 -0500
      Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-15 09:53 -0500
        Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-17 17:40 -0500
          Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-17 18:08 -0500
            Re: Signing an applet Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2013-12-21 08:35 +0800
              Re: Signing an applet emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2013-12-31 11:44 -0500
                Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-01-04 20:14 -0500
              Re: Signing an applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-01-04 20:11 -0500
                Re: Signing an applet Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-06 08:04 +0800

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