Rules Roundup

[Mr. C Lamont Gilbert]

I cannot get the Rules roundup to work. Does it require a specific version of Java?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

We occasionally have people post about problems with the game; usually it's something we can't reproduce. You can help us figure out what's up by

Telling us the exact URL you're going to

Telling us what browser and version you have

Telling us what OS and word-size (i.e., 64-bit Linux)

Describing what happens when you visit the URL, and what you expected to happen instead

[paul wheaton]

a screen pic would be nice.

[Mr. C Lamont Gilbert]

The link http://www.javaranch.com/game/game2.jsp

pauses for a second then takes me here

http://java.com/en/download/inc/windows_new_xpi.jsp

The link http://www.javaranch.com/game.jsp

Just has text on the page. I assume there is a window on the page somewhere that's supposed to be the game, but I can't tell as there is no big square space open.

I'm using Firefox 3.6 and IE 7 but I think IE is using some old version of Java. I think our time card program at work uses Microsoft's Java so I had to keep the browser set that way...

I have several versions installed. Hmm, I may have stumbled into some political mumbo jumbo
Firefox is disabling the java plugin
Java 2 Plugin v1.5_00-1.6_99. Reason: These versions of the Java plugin are no longer supported by Oracle and cause severe stability issues for Firefox 3.6 and later (see bug 634639)

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

I believe Microsoft's Java stopped somewhere around JDK 1.1.4, but the Rules Roundup applet should actually work with Java 1.1. I just had a look and the class files are actually version 45, which is 1.1 compatible. I don't know if the applet works with Microsoft's JVM, though, and I suppose it's possible you have an older version of that as well.

But if you installed the latest Sun^H^H^HOracle JVM for Firefox, then that would almost certainly work.

[Mr. C Lamont Gilbert]

That was it I think. FF did not support that wide range of java plugins. I installed the latest and I'm back chasing cows again