Getting Chat working on XP

[Guest guest]

I'm on WindowsXP with IE 6 and I managed to yet the chat room working

in the end.

 

I downloaded the Java virtual machine from the Sun site (java.sun.com)

since the Microsoft download doesn't seem to be supported for XP.

 

I found my browser didn't recognise the Java plugin at all until I

double-clicked on the coffee-cup icon in Control Panel, went to the

'Browser' tab and enabled Internet Explorer.

 

Then in the tools/Internet options for IE, I went to advanced options and

there was a toggle with the Java coffee cup icon beside it, saying

Java(Sun) Use Java Version (whatever) for <applet>. It was already set. I

unset it, closed and re-opened the browser and the chat group applet loaded

and worked. With it set, I just got a message saying that the applet

couldn't be loaded and recommending downloading a new version of the VM

(from Microsoft, of course!)

 

Java really is very good for platform independent applications - it's just

that Microsoft likes to screw it up for us to keep us all on Windows ..

 

 

 

At 06:50 PM 9/7/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>The subject of chat rooms came up on another Group and so I did a

>quick test and posted the following message...

>

> >I tried accessing the chat room from IE 5.2 on a Mac running OS X.1.5 and

> >nothing loads at all, even though Java is enabled.

> >

> >A look at the one and only help page for Chat does though state that it is

> >only supported on Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 though.

> >

> >So if you are running ME, XP or another OS entirely then I guess you just

> >don't count. So much for using java to provide platform independent

> >applications then.

>

>For a VegansUncensored list chat session this week (Wednesday at 9pm

>again) I'll try and get a web page up with a java IRC client to try in

>place of the official page. I'll post the URL and a reminder next

>week in case anyone here would like to join in.

>

>Michael

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

>I downloaded the Java virtual machine from the Sun site (java.sun.com)

>since the Microsoft download doesn't seem to be supported for XP.

 

That's odd as it works for me with IE 6 on XP Pro using the Microsoft vm!

 

>Java really is very good for platform independent applications - it's just

>that Microsoft likes to screw it up for us to keep us all on Windows ..

 

I would instinctively blame MS, but it's 's coding that seems to be

the failing here, odd since it doesn't work with IE on the Mac.

 

Michael