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From: Odd Vinje
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:00

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"Vince" <vman47@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:39ce32ec$1_2@dnews...
> Are you running your applet in a browser or the applet viewer? You'd be
> surprised at how many "recent" browser versions are using downlevel JVMs
> (1.1.x). Swing, and hence JApplet will not be available on these. You can
> try the Java Plugin at www.javasoft.com, however, if your applet is for
the
> world at large instead of a controlled (ex: intranet) environment where
you
> can dictate the browser/platform, this will not get you around the
problem.
>
> The short of it is, until the world migrates to browsers that support more
> recent JVMs you're stuck with writing older non-Swing code.

This is not correct. The last release of Swing (1.1.1) is supported in JDK
1.x which means that current browsers (IE 5.x, Netscape 4.x) can run Swing.
See my message "Solution: Running Swing in Explorer without plug-in" in this
forum for how to do this.

Regards, Odd

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