Re: Javascript fails

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On Saturday 16 December 2006 14:05, James Wilkinson wrote:
>Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>> OK -- here's one that I visit when the weather gets unsettled:
>> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=RAX&product=N0R&overlay=1110111
>>1&loop=yes
>>

This site seems to be properly reproduced with the Sun Java package 
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_10-b03 installed here, FC6, athlon(i686), 
FF=1.5.0.8

>> It doesn't work -- at least for me -- with the Firefox package; all I
>> get is a popup directing me to the Sun site. I'm in the process of
>> tweaking a new install of FC6 x86-64, and being able to access the
>> above page is on my to-do list.
>
>That page says
>     Java is necessary for radar looping and is best optimized using
>     Java version 1.4.2 or higher.
>
>It even puts "Java" in bold. So it's not talking about Javascript: as
>has been explained, that is something quite different and unfortunately
>named.
>
>The version of Java in FC6 does not include a "sandbox", which would
>limit Java applets' ability to do stuff like read your hard disk or make
>new network connections. For this reason, it's not used for Web applets
>by default.
>
>So you will either need to use Sun's Java or something called
>gcjwebplugin. More details are available at
>http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ#head-b241ab56b127581540c088f61
>c2905d37ecb54a9
>
>I'd better stress again -- it is *not* *safe* to use gcjwebplugin on Web
>sites you don't *fully* trust. At the moment, it only supports a
>traditional Microsoft Internet Explorer-style "head in the sand"
>approach to security -- it *assumes* that bad things won't happen.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>James.
>
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