Internet Explorer: Java Applet Champion?

February 12th, 2004 Challenge: Resizing applet from within Java code. For example say the applet code calculates that the applet needs more space than it has been allocated, then how to go about it? Last time when faced with this problem I solved it with a nifty piece of Javascript method.

December 7th, 2005 Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks.

January 24th, 2004 The problem I was trying to solve was to resize applets when the browser changes size, so as to always fill the total displayed area of the browser. Googling I found an article from javaworld - Resize applets within browser frames.

April 19th, 2006 The Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Release 4 update, issued Monday, fixes a vulnerability in Java Web Start. An application, exploiting the vulnerability, may grant itself permissions to read and write local files that are accessible to the user running the Java Web Start application.

October 22nd, 2007 Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge.

December 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.

October 21st, 2005 I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer.

July 12th, 2005 I just read a post titled - Java Applets = Stupid Design. The actual contention was - My example would have been web pages that are written entirely as Java applets.

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

November 15th, 2004 I have enumerated some benefits and things to watch out for in the latest Firefox release.

December 7th, 2007 Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion.

June 12th, 2007 Java applets had taken a beating in the past. Now it appears applets are making a resurgence lately with some quality applet based products.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

June 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.

December 18th, 2004 Some interesting quotes from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.