Re: Physlets on a Mac

[Vern Lindberg <vwlsps@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU>]

I have had fairly good luck using OSX 10.2.6 with Netscape 7.02 with
the physlets. Interapplet communication works most of the time, for
example I can run pretty much all of the Animator examples on
Wolfgang's page.

Life is quirky however. Sometimes nothing works until I reload the
page, and then it is fine. Other times doing this will produce a
double image with an apple window at left of screen, then the working
one in the center. This can be fixed by resizing the page slightly.

Life is not yet perfect, but at least there is something!

Sun's HotJava Browser still is available and works under OS9
emulation on my Mac.

Good luck!

Vern (RIT)

Aaron Titus wrote
> The best hope is Mozilla (www.mozilla.org). LiveConnect is not
> supported by Safari, IE (for the mac), Camino, or other Mac browsers.
> However, LiveConnect is still buggy in Mac versions of Mozilla. I think
> that Mozilla 1.3 (and maybe even 1.2) was actually better than 1.4,
> which seems like it took a step backwards in this regard.
>
> The hope is there--but the promise isn't.
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> On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:29 PM, Owen wrote:
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> >  While we are on the topic of physlets, does anyone know how to get a
> >  mac (preferably os  X, but os 9 is ok) to run applets that require
> >  LiveConnect (ie: java to javascript communication)?
> >
> >  Perfect examples are the Physlets found at webphysics.davidson.edu.
> >
> >  I can run simple applets, but not phjyslet problems or physlets that
> >  rely on LiveConnect.
> >
> >  Thanks in advance,
> >  Owen