Java Applet Security Warning
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Some of you may have recently visited this blog or the Instant Technologies website and received a Java Applet security warning. If you;re using Internet Explorer then you never received this message so didn't get aggravated by it. If you use, Firefox as your browser, then basically it would become an irritation if you didn't choose to trust Instant Technologies. Why was this happening?
Basically I had updated STLinks on this site and I updated the Instant Technologies website to support STLInks in the FireFox browser. FireFox has a different security model to IE, and to work with STLinks it requires a signed applet. IE doesn't so IE works much better from the end users perspective. Obviously in a controlled corporate environment you would just trust the applet signer, but in the World Wide Web people wont do this.
So if you want to chat with me via STLinks, use IE on this page...
Some of you may have recently visited this blog or the Instant Technologies website and received a Java Applet security warning. If you;re using Internet Explorer then you never received this message so didn't get aggravated by it. If you use, Firefox as your browser, then basically it would become an irritation if you didn't choose to trust Instant Technologies. Why was this happening?
Basically I had updated STLinks on this site and I updated the Instant Technologies website to support STLInks in the FireFox browser. FireFox has a different security model to IE, and to work with STLinks it requires a signed applet. IE doesn't so IE works much better from the end users perspective. Obviously in a controlled corporate environment you would just trust the applet signer, but in the World Wide Web people wont do this.
So if you want to chat with me via STLinks, use IE on this page...
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