On 5/19/05, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running Fedora Core 3, Firefox 1.03 and Java jre1.5.0_02. When I > bring up the Washington Post Crossword puzzle, which is a java applet, I > cannot get letters to appear in the squares. I have had no trouble with > this in the past on other operating systems or older versions of Fedora. > I have experienced some weirdness under Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise > Linux with this crossword puzzle in the past. When I start the applet, > the first word gets filled in automatically. I haven't seen this > behavior under Mac OS or Windoze. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else > had seem similar problems, knew what caused the problem, and what the > solution is? I miss my nightly crossword puzzle. I'm using jre 1.4.2_06, with the jpackage setup, and I just tried this. The first clue comes up filled-in, like you are seeing. But I'm able to type in the letters fine. Thanks for pointing me to a cool online crossword! To set up java with jpackage, I followed the excellent instructions at http://mpeters.us/linux/j2sdk.php. I don't know what all the benefits of this are, but it was a relatively pain-free way to get java working nicely in FC3. I have not had any of the plug-in headaches that people often have, for example. FYI you should update to FF 1.04, 1.03 has some security issues that are worth fixing.
