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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:00:56 -0400
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On 7/2/2014 9:14 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/2/2014 2:01 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 7/2/2014 1:41 PM, w.tom.adams@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I developed a web site www.poologic.com that depends on a couple of
>>> Java applets (Poologic Calculator and ROI Calculator).
>>>
>>> The web site has become increasingly user unfriendly and hard to use
>>> due the Oracle's efforts to address security and the fact that applets
>>> are going out of style.  (I developed the applets in 1999, maybe they
>>> were going out of style already back then, but I did not notice it
>>> till more recently.)
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out what to do.
>>
>>      Personally (I can't speak for others), I do not allow my
>> browsers to run Java: It's too risky.  Were I on an intRAnet
>> with applets served up internally I'd be willing to run those,
>> but on the wild and lawless intERnet?  Not for me, thanks.
>>
>>      So, for me (again, I can't speak for others), applets on
>> the Internet might as well not be there at all.  Your applet,
>> however useful it might be, is of no use to me because I
>> can't/won't run it.  To reach a wider audience, I think you
>> need to adopt a different technology.
>
> Do you also disable Flash, SilverLight, JavaScript and
> various other code running in sandbox in browser technology?

     I permit JavaScript, use "click to run" for Flash, and
don't even install Silverlight.[*]

     Not sure what this has to do with applets, though.

     [*] Overtly, anyhow: Who knows what Microsoft may be
sneaking into their IE patches?  But since I use IE solely
for Microsoft Update, the attack surface is smallish.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid