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Re: Signing an applet

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Subject	Re: Signing an applet
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On 2013-12-20 19:35 Richard Maher wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 7:08 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 8<
>
>>
>> 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.

I rewrote the program in JavaScript and now it runs perfectly without 
any warnings. And it looks even better, since with Unicode I am able to 
use symbols, while with Java that was problematic:

https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/nt/nataltransits.html

emf

-- 
Google's top Spherical Triangle Calculator search result!
https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/js/spherical.html

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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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