[vcf-midatlantic] vintage comms days

[Neil Cherry]

On 02/03/2017 08:22 PM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> 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.


>
> ​might I suggest another flavor of Java, it's called Processing​,

> https://processing.org/

I didn't know that was a superset of Java but the issue still remains.
Most browser are blocking any Java (that means the JVM) so you can't
even run Processing.

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