[Jscheme-devel] JschemeApplet & older browsers

[Gary L. K. <kra...@bb...>]

In the User Manual in the JScheme Applet section, it says that "Note this 
currently only works with Java 1.2 enabled browsers such as Netscape 6.*"

It will also work in older browsers with the Java Plug-In installed (which 
you do by installing JRE on the machine).

It works for me as-is with IE 5.5 (on Windows 2000) with the plugin installed.

It works for me with Netscape 4.7 with the plugin installed, if the simple 
applet tag in the HTML is modified to the following combined mess:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
     height=400  width=600>
     <PARAM NAME="code" VALUE="jsint.SchemeApplet">
     <PARAM NAME="codebase" VALUE="../..">
     <PARAM NAME="archive" VALUE="applet.jar">
     <param name="prog" value="Demorunner.scm">
     <param name="init" value="init">
  <COMMENT>
      <EMBED type="application/x-java-applet"
          code="jsint.SchemeApplet"
          codebase="../.."
          archive="applet.jar"
          height=400  width=600
          prog="Demorunner.scm"
          init="init">
      <NOEMBED>
      </COMMENT>
      </NOEMBED>
      </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

(this works because only the OBJECT tag is visible to IE and only the EMBED 
tag is visible to Netscape)

I'm not recommending you change the HTML (since I don't know how 
forward-compatible it is) but you might want to mention use of the plug-in 
for older browsers.

Gary


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