Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 15:26:15 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/04/2012 08:29 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>
> > Java lovers answer me why am I having problems running Java applets
> > like internet banking in my Firefox on Fedora if it's so superior
> > and very well supported environment?
>
> Probably because you haven't told us about them.
>
> Banking applets are particularly problematic because they tend to be
> unavailable to developers who don't happen to be customers of that
> bank.  Also, banking applets are often deliberately obfuscated.
> Having said that, we will try to make them work if we can.
>
> Finally, and people are often surprised by this, applets are not part
> of the Java SE platform: the browser plugin is an entirely independent
> component that's not part of OpenJDK.
>

Touche.


>
> Andrew.
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Best,

Christopher Svanefalk
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