openjdk, icedtea and keepvid.com

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 08:33 Tue 19 Oct     , Chris Jones wrote:
> I just thought it might be worth pointing out that I've recently had to
> dump openjdk and icedtea plugin in favor of the proper sun-java packages
> due to openjdk not working with www.keepvid.com
> 
> I don't know whether it's a problem that could be fixed or not.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris Jones
> 
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> 

Did you file a bug report at http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla ?

Nothing gets fixed if it's not reported.  Doing so means issues can
be fixed and it helps you, others and Free Software as a whole.

In many cases, a lot of problems with the plugin are actually due to
the applet itself doing something undocumented or making assumptions
about running on the proprietary Oracle plugin.  I'm not saying there
aren't really bugs, but the problem with relying on a single solution
(the Oracle proprietary plugin) is that these things do creep in.  The
same happened with websites and Internet Explorer at one time.

--
Andrew :)

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