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How about Java? Currently FireFox is the only way to use older versions of the Java plugin on OS X. The way things are going I'm going to have to keep a WinXP
by a2tech 11y ago
How about Java? Currently FireFox is the only way to use older versions of the Java plugin on OS X.
The way things are going I'm going to have to keep a WinXP IE6 VM for managing all these switches, printers, UPSs, and everything else with an embedded management platform.
- mgbmtl 11y agoThe article links to Java web start, which is what Oracle seems to recommend: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/java_web_start_in_or https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/java_web_... But yes, VM sounds like a better solution. Why risk the security of your desktop/laptop with unmaintained legacy applications?
- McGlockenshire 11y ago> The way things are going I'm going to have to keep a WinXP IE6 VM This is exactly what we ended up doing. Our building HVAC controller is managed by an applet that doesn't work under the latest few Java versions, and we have another appliance that requires SSL but can't speak TLS, so current browsers can't even reach it. While we're already working on replacing the appliance, there's no realistic way we're going to replace the HVAC controller any time soon...
- cpeterso 11y agoJava works for me in Safari, though I had to jump through some hoops to disable security checks.
- mavrc 11y agoSilverlight is still hanging around in a number of edge cases as well, or at least, I keep running into it in education. It's going to be really hard on a lot of things when NPAPI vanishes entirely.