Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: emf Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Signing an applet Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:44:15 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <52adc266$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <52b0d986$0$298$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: P/jcyU9BgtZ3ZqKhBcTaCQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27153 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