{"id":225,"date":"2006-07-21T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/225"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:09:18","slug":"and-we-thought-java-was-the-same-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/and-we-thought-java-was-the-same-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"And We Thought Java was the Same Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Java. It’s that old language that runs code in a highly bloated virtual machine at slow speeds and terrible performance, especially on the Web. On a local PC, a Java’s just pure slow, but on the web Java can be a real headache. However, it has its benefits too — or so we thought. There are only two reasons someone would use Java in a website today: they wanted to write a complex program\/script really quick and they needed it to just work<\/em> regardless of browser or platform. After all, Java is Java, no matter if you’re on Windows, Linux, or Mac; or use Firefox, Opera, or even Internet Explorer… But it’s not!<\/p>\n

First, to clarify: this isn’t<\/em> an article about Java, and it especially isn’t an attack on Java, not today. This is about Opera 9, the wonderful and highly-innovative browser that can do anything and everything with less memory than its competitors and with much less time too. But it breaks Java.<\/p>\n

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The reason isn’t clear, because unlike older versions of Opera, Opera 9 doesn’t have its own special version of Java or use it in a ‘broken’ way. The extent of Opera’s innovation in this field with Opera 9 is interfacing directly with Java — unlike all other browsers it doesn’t need a plug-in to connect to the JRE, instead it finds the executable files on its own and embeds them in a browser window.<\/p>\n

If<\/em> all what Opera does is run the JAR on its own, then simply stick it into the browser, there is no reason anything<\/em> should go wrong. Its fairly straight-forward, but apparently something is wrong.<\/p>\n

The particular manifestation of this bug is something we’re experiencing with our Gallery<\/a> which has a script used to modify and crop the thumbnails used for our pictures. It has a movable box to select the area visible in the thumbnails, and in the bottom-right corner of this box is an anchor that can be used to re-size the box.<\/p>\n

In Firefox, Safari, Netscape, and Internet Explorer, it works great:
\nHow it looks on Bon Echo & IE7<\/a><\/p>\n

But in Opera, moving the box resizes it, and resizing it locks it from moving; and no matter how are you try, you can’t get the box to span the entire image.
\nMessed-up resizing on Opera<\/a><\/p>\n

The interesting thing is, Opera is the only one that displays the picture correctly without the pixelization, yet it alone can’t re-size the right way. In the other browsers you have the grey translucent shadow, but in Opera it’s missing.<\/p>\n

All this brings us to the question: whose fault is it? Does Opera incorrectly use the JRE, or is the JRE actually platform-dependant, but for the ‘compatibility layer’ presented in the plug-in? Why does this happen with Opera alone? And most importantly: with AJAX and Flash, is Java dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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