RE: Another opinion on InfoCenter

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Darel,

Have you ever considered replacing the Java applet with something that's 
pure JavaScript or even plain HTML?

For example, take a look at the following site where they offer an Open 
Source (BSD licensed) JavaScript tree menu:
  http://www.treemenu.com/

It seems to me that the Java applet has never worked well in the 
Information Center... It takes a long time to start up, and causes 
problems with different browsers, and the really frustrating part is that 
I can't see why it's necessary to use an Applet for this.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com


On Fri, 13 May 2005, Darel Benysh wrote:

> Hi Joe, at a high level, the function we relied on to handle interaction
> between the Java Applet and the JavaScript in the content was defective.
> This problem manifest itself in different ways in different  browser
> application / JRE / OS environment configurations.  The manifestations in
> our InfoCenter application ranged widely.  At one end, the system simply
> did not execute the functions provided by the java->javascript interaction.
> In this case, users might not even notice that something wasn't happening
> as designed.  At the other end, the problems were more severe and the only
> way to regain control of the system was to manually kill the browser
> process.  There were also a number of variations in between.