Re: Java? Ja va. Sorta.

Marc de Groot ([email protected])
Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:39:29 -0800

> On Dec 9, 10:36am, Marc de Groot wrote:
> > Subject: Java? Ja va. Sorta.
> > After a fairly substantial expenditure of effort,
> > I discovered why I had had trouble executing the "Hello
> > World" applet with Netscape Navigator 2.0b3 (for 32-bit Windows.)
> >
> > It turns out that Navigator's implementation of Java will not execute
> > an applet from an HTML page that is accessed with a type specifier
> > other than ghttp:".
> >
> > Since HTML files on one's local disk are typically accessed with
> > the "file:" type specifier, applets will not execute.
> >
> > The solution was to find and install an http server on my computer,
> > and to esad the files on the local disk via a network connection to the
> > server.
> >
> > Considering the inelegance of the solution and the obscurity of the problem,
> > I believe this story warrants repsating to anyone who is about to learn Java.
>
>
> Just add the directory that the .class and .html file exist to
> your CLASSPATH environment variable. It should work then.
> Does for me. Hopefully they will remove this dependancy when
> the product ships.
>

Greg, where did you find this information?

^M

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