I was having some problems with IE ( but not netscape ) with connecting a socket to the host from which the applet was downloaded. After much pissing and groaning, I found some info at Microsofts site that said there was a bug in their virtual machine that caused this acceptable action to cause a Security Exception. They then said that this was fixed in any of their 31XX and higher Microsoft Virtual Machine updates, cool! So I downloaded the newest update, guess what, it still does the exact same thing. Do Microsoft employees have their heads up their asses? The bug I was experiencing was described to a T on the website and it said the patch would fix it, yet it wont. I verified that the newest VM was up and running for IE. I really feel like cussing. ao

Java Plug-in
Java Plug-in
Java Plug-in

I wanrned you! Didn''t I warn you?! That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!

Opere Citato

hmmm, tempting.... But will users want to download 5Mb if they don''t already have it.

ao

Typical M$ frankly. I''m surprised you couldn''t get a socket connection to work though. I was working on projects last year that had to work on IE4+, Netscape 4+ and both Windows/Mac etc. They relied quite heavily on socket comms, and we never had any major problems - we were just connecting to port 80 though. What port are you trying to connect to?

oops, meant to say DatagramSocket, ya sockets work back and forth. It was the datagramsockets that are buggered.

ao

The plug-in is probably your only hope then - M$ aren''t likely to make that much of an effort to fix any bugs from now on I guess.

Pity the plug-in is a 5Mb download. I wish Sun would tighten up their codebase and reduce the size of it.
Still, you might be able to sell the idea of the large download if you include screenshots of your game...?