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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Howe who wrote (47780)	3/8/2002 2:31:59 PM
From: Ben Antanaitis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

It doesn't barf, it simply says do you want to download Java virtual machine, or something like that. I believe this option was offered by the particular web site you happened to go to. In your web page code, You can test for the presence of Java support in the viewers browser and offer to let the person jump to a location to download the SUN or MSFT java jvm. IE6.0 natively reports something like 'function not supported' or 'plug-in missing' (or some such I do not clearly remember how it appeared the first time I ran my XP machine into a site with a Java applet) when it runs into a JAVA applet and the web site coder hasn't coded around XP's JAVA blindspot. If you go to MSFT's JAVA Support page you get to read all about evil SUNW and how they were forcing their 'standard' on the users and MSFT did not think this is fair, yadda, yadda, yadda. Ben A.