Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!bigwpi.WPI.EDU!hayesm From: Michael Hayes Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:30:06 -0500 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <6f3p9b$ntb@fridge.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.java.gui:12050 comp.lang.java.help:20327 comp.lang.beta:11494 On 25 Mar 1998, Philip Brown wrote: >On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:40:51 -0500, hayesm@wpi.edu wrote: >>On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Adam M Gaffin wrote: >> >>>Ah, remember when Java was supposed to be cross-platform? >>>... >> >>Well, the code for this applet has no 'enhancements' of any kind - be they >>Microsoft or any other browser or OS. Our applet is JDK 1.1 compliant and >>is 100% pure Java. i.e. no enhancements -- The only problem is that >>Microsoft has the only JVM that handles how we do our word-wrapping for >>the TextArea... It's not our fault that Netscape and whoever else is a >>little behind there - someday they'll catch up. > >It's one thing to say netscape has a bug. > >But if your stuff ONLY runs "correctly" on a microsoft VM, and not MJE, or >jdk1.1 appletviewer, or netscape... then it is YOU folks who need to >"catch up". >You are using a platform specific "feature", that will most likely never >be a part of other java runtimes. So you may as well just put >"For microsoft only" on your product, for all time. > > Our applet runs well with other JDK 1.1 compliant browsers except for wrod wrapping. The reason is the carrriage return (\r). For some reason Netscape and Sun did not allow their VM able to interpret all the Ascii characters. If someone out their does not believe me, try setting the text of a TextArea to \r and see the square. The Ascii character set is universal in the computer industry, and has been for quite some time. Why isn't it supported now? It is not our fault that Sun and Netscape can't make their VM able to interpret a simple character.