Carroll Grigsby wrote: > OK -- here's one that I visit when the weather gets unsettled: > http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=RAX&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes > > It doesn't work -- at least for me -- with the Firefox package; all I > get is a popup directing me to the Sun site. I'm in the process of > tweaking a new install of FC6 x86-64, and being able to access the > above page is on my to-do list. That page says Java is necessary for radar looping and is best optimized using Java version 1.4.2 or higher. It even puts "Java" in bold. So it's not talking about Javascript: as has been explained, that is something quite different and unfortunately named. The version of Java in FC6 does not include a "sandbox", which would limit Java applets' ability to do stuff like read your hard disk or make new network connections. For this reason, it's not used for Web applets by default. So you will either need to use Sun's Java or something called gcjwebplugin. More details are available at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ#head-b241ab56b127581540c088f61c2905d37ecb54a9 I'd better stress again -- it is *not* *safe* to use gcjwebplugin on Web sites you don't *fully* trust. At the moment, it only supports a traditional Microsoft Internet Explorer-style "head in the sand" approach to security -- it *assumes* that bad things won't happen. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | If infinite rednecks fired infinite shotguns at an aprilcottage.co.uk | infinite number of road signs, they'd eventually | create all the great literary works of the world. | In braille.
