FF 3.6+ Applets and the right JDK

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:37:22 +0200, Aryeh Friedman  
<aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reason for upgrading is we also do HTML5 work and even though the
> support is not there fully yet we do need to test against the best
> current support for HTML5.... the reason for bringing up flash was I
> don't own a TV and didn't want to loose that capability for watching
> video (there is not enough OGG/HTML5 videos out there yet to make not
> having flash an option)


Please keep the mailinglist as a recipient. There are people out there who  
know more than I do.

Up-to-date HTML5 needs Firefox 3.6+ or Opera 10.60+ (AFAIK).
For applets you can try the openjdk6 port with the new WEB config option,  
which works for me in Firefox 3.6, but I have hangs in Opera. This applet  
support is quite new. See the archives of this mailinglist of the last few  
weeks for more info about that.
I don't have experience with flashplugin on FreeBSD.

But why don't you just try it? You can always go back to firefox 3.5.

Some info about the applet support in openjdk6:
http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?category=java&port=openjdk6&files=yes&message_id=201009160032.o8G0WmIv087354@repoman.freebsd.org

Ronald.


> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Ronald Klop
> <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:08:49 +0200, Aryeh Friedman
>> <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I currently use java/diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_9,
>>> www/linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r53 and www/firefox-3.5.11,1 for both
>>> personal and professional browsing on 8.1-STABLE... except for the
>>> occasional npviewer hiccup it seems to work fine... I want to upgrade
>>> to the latest JDK, flash and firefox possible... note since I do
>>> applet development (my main jdk for doing the actual compiling is
>>> 1.6u21 on a cloud Gentoo server)... I want to update both the local
>>> and server jdk's but the server side has given us problems with
>>> generics in some rare cases (we have some very complex type
>>> parameterizations in one of our core libs)... what do people recommend
>>> interms of far I can upgrade stuff (I would preffer openjdk 1.6,
>>> latest ff and latest flash if possible)
>>
>> If you are developing applets the server side Java version doesn't  
>> matter as
>> applets run client side in the browser? And what has flash to do with  
>> the
>> applets?
>>
>> In fact you are asking a lot of questions in one long sentence.
>>
>> In another fact... if it works don't upgrade if there is no reason for  
>> it.
>> (But this probably is not what you wanted to hear)
>>
>> Ronald.
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