JOGL applet on OSX with FF

Cork · February 7, 2008, 10:07pm

Hi all,

I noticed the JOGL applet test on the following page overlaps with the browser toolbar on OSX 10.5.1 with FireFox 3.0b2. Anyone else seen this problem? I’ve tried in on Safari and apart from crashing the browser the first time, it seems to run within it’s proper bounds. Maybe it’s a FireFox issue. I don’t have a windows box to try it there though.

https://jogl-demos.dev.java.net/applettest.html

heres a picture of what happens:

http://www.whitehexagon.com/jogl-applet-osx-ff.png

Cheers

Peter

Cork · February 7, 2008, 10:11pm

PS it also seems to overlap the right and bottom border areas, and I also just noticed it is always showing on top when using tabbed browsing. ie floating above all other tab contents. tabbed browsing seems fine with Safari.

kbr · February 8, 2008, 4:30pm

Applets in Firefox on OS X are currently using some massive hacks and I’m surprised they work at all, especially with JOGL.

We are working on a new implementation of the Java Plug-In which will solve this problem. See https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html and https://jdk6.dev.java.net/testPlugIn.html . Hopefully there should be news soon about the Mac OS X front. In the meantime, please try the new Java Plug-In with your JOGL applets on other platforms.

Cork · February 10, 2008, 9:17am

Thanks for the info Ken, saved me wasting too much time

I hope we won’t be waiting for 6.uN (is this gonna be 6.1 or 7 or another confusing name change to the versioning of Java?) on OSX as long as we’ve been waiting for Apple to release 6. Seems Apple really don’t like us Java devs anymore Is there any forum for begging Sun to take control of the OSX JVM release cycle again, although I appreciate you guys probably have enough on your plate.
Cheers
Peter

kbr · February 10, 2008, 7:58pm

You can post perhaps on the Java SE forum, or if your comment is specifically about seeing 6uN on Mac OS X faster, on the 6uN early access forum. However, your feedback might be better spent on Apple’s java-dev mailing list, though I would suggest you check the archives.

Also, keep in mind that both Apple and Sun are highly motivated to get the new Java Plug-In working on Mac OS X.