[vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days

[David Gesswein]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:40:09PM -0500, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > My PDP-8 is available all the time. http://www.pdp8online.com/run.shtml
> > Alas the interface is Java which has gone from the hot new thing when I
> > originally did it to obsolete in browsers. Will have to figure out how
> > to redo it when I get time.
> 
> Just curious, what is the issue?

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Dan Roganti wrote:
> 
> ???oh I remember yours Dave
> But didn't you mean javascript
> I noticed this doesn't work anymore on Chrome ver.45 and later
> But other browsers still do
> I think having a Java app instead would be ideal,
> it's still cross platform, and no need for browsers
> Dan
> 

Its a Java browser app, not javascript. The problem is due to the security 
issues with java browsers are making it harder and harder to run java in the
browser and many people don't have the plugin installed. At some point
only signed apps are going to be supported. If it wasn't dying in the browser
I could purchase yearly the code signing cert.

It could easly be distributed as a standalone java app but I suspect many
people would find that too much trouble. I think that I will need to convert
it to javascript so all they need to do is click.