[vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days

[Dan Roganti]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:01 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>

​might I suggest another flavor of Java, it's called Processing​,
with a strong suite of libraries in almost every category
and the compiler runs on the 3 major platforms
it's brought many people from other fields to programming
using a cohesive form of the language
https://processing.org/