As the Issue Manager – a liaison position between our tech support and development – you always discover interesting constellations under which Java applets that our web application uses simply won’t run. A bunch of customers with Internet Explorer 7 or 8 could not launch any of our applets, although other applets worked perfectly fine for them.
Internet research yielded no similar experiences this far, so hopefully this one will help if you are facing the same issues… the message is: keep your system clean!
These were the tests I ran:
- The applet checker on Sun’s Java Website returned a correct installation of the currently up to date 1.6.0_13 JRE
- Entering “javascript:navigator.javaEnabled();” in the URL box returned “true”