Every time, I believe Sun's hype on how they are going to bring applets back, I get a crushing dose of reality as to how unlikely it is (and don't get me even started on the colossal mistake in the making that is JavaFX).
So, I downloaded the latest beta of the new plugin and run via Firefox 3 some of the demos:
https://scenegraph-demos.dev.java.net/demo-applets.html
And voila! What greets me first (running this from work)? A beautiful proxy prompt/password!
Just like Flash/Flex and Silverlight pop up all the time...no, wait a minute...they don't!
Imagine what would the acceptance of Flash be if every flash animation forced the user to re-enter their proxy prompt/password. Well, it seems this "new generation" (but same old thinking) plugin can't seem to integrate with the browser properly enough to get its proxy login info correctly!
For crying out loud! To add insult to injury, there is a little checkbox that says "Remember password". You can check it as many times as you want, but you will still have to re-enter your proxy user name and password every time.
With QA like this on the "new generation" plugin...I'd better start learning Flex soon.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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I imagine that the point of being a beta is totally irrelevant to this?
I forgot: did you file an issue for that?
Well, you'd think beta means feature freeze...this is a pretty major hole if you ask me.
I *will* file an issue for this...but really, how did something like this not make it in any test case up till now?
"I'd better start learning Flex soon"
With the recent fleeing of major Sun employees from JavaFX to Flex/Air, I've been thinking along the the same lines recently.
to make it work it does not even work on IE...it just gave me an ActiveX security exception and did not load the applets page at all.
Nice.
Jacek,
This is probably a bit of an unusual comment to post to a blog. I would try to contact you via email, but I can't seem to get an email address off your blog. However, are you the same Jacek Furmankavicz that used to develop the Power Builder front end for AuditWorks at STS Systems ?.
Regards,
Chris
y guys can there be with a name like that? *grin*
Sure, you can reach me at jacek99 AT gmail
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