Re: [Jmol-developers] i18n of contextual menu

[Miguel <mi...@jm...>]

>>But if they are in individual .jar files then it might be the case that=

>>all of the translation .jar files would have to appear in the 'archive'=

>>parameter to the applet/object tag. That would have a negative impact o=
n
>>Jmol.js and .html pages.
>>
> Ah ok, I see the problem.
> I thought that the applet could decide by itslef to load a .jar file,
> but I don't have much experience with applets.

Unfortunately, an applet cannot decide to load .jar files by itself.

I believe the thinking was/is as follows:

=22The web page author should decide which .jar files are accessible to t=
he
web page. Otherwise, a .jar file could try to load lots of other .jar
files that the page author was not aware of.=22

Frankly, this strikes me as a rather silly restriction, since all .jar
files would have to have come from the same web server. But admittedly I
have not fully researched/thought-through all the security implications.

I know that was the case with old browser JVMs. Recently (4 or 5 years
ago?) there were changes to the structure of the .jar Manifest. These
manifest changes included jar-file-indexing. Something tells me that this=

restriction may have been lifted as part of these changes. I will put thi=
s
on my list of things to investigate.


Miguel