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IE Java Bug
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[email protected] (Don Yacktman) writes:
> "Russ McClelland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Take a look at some of the OO news groups and you'll also learn
> > that Java's legendary portability is anything BUT portable. Not
> > only do apps run differently on different machines, even different
> > versions of the same browser run an app differently. [...]
>
> Here's a concrete example of this--a bug in the MSIE JVM causes
> certain if/then statements to evaluate their condition incorrectly.
> Netscape gets it right. If you don't believe me, try out this
> game on both browsers:
>
> http://www.globalobjects.com/Applaroids/
>
> There's an object that's supposed to chase your ship--but in
> Internet Exploder, it runs away from you. For anyone who wants
> to see the offending source as well as some source that works
> around the problem, I'll append it to this message.
>
> Note that I blame this problem on MicroSquish and NOT on Java.
> But I still think Java isn't quite ready for prime-time. :-)
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