Comment 12 for bug 186245

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jim_charlton (charltn) wrote : Re: [Bug 186245] Re: icedtea-java7-plugin strangeness with anis.class

Hi Ralph:

I am traveling for a few days and cannot check my Ubuntu machine but I am
almost positive that I checked this recently and the most recent version of
the OS (and Iced Tea) worked with no problem. So you can mark this bug as
being fixed.

Thanks for following up. Jim Charlton

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ralph Janke <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> icedtea-java7-plugin strangeness with anis.class
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186245
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “icedtea-java7” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am running Ubuntu Gutsy 2.6.22-14-generic on an AMD64 machine 4
> processors
> Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@king) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929
> (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 15
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
> stepping : 11
> cpu MHz : 1596.000
> cache size : 4096 KB
> physical id : 0
> siblings : 4
> core id : 0
> cpu cores : 4
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 10
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm
> constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
> bogomips : 4803.24
> clflush size : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management:
>
> Here is the output from 'java -version'
> jim@charlton7:/var/log$ java -version
> java version "1.7.0"
> IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b22)
> IcedTea 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.7.0-b22, mixed mode)
>
> I am running Mozilla/Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;
> rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
>
> When I go to http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir.html only the first
> image displays, even though the java applet seems to be running OK.
> Here is the relevant section of the source code
> ******
> <APPLET codebase="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/applet" archive="aniscode.jar"
> code="AniS.class" WIDTH=700 HEIGHT=580>
>
> <PARAM NAME="controls" VALUE="startstop, looprock, step, speed, toggle,
> zoom, firstlast, refresh">
> <PARAM NAME="auto_refresh" VALUE="30">
> <PARAM NAME="rate" VALUE="80">
> <PARAM NAME="pause_percent" VALUE="800">
> <PARAM name="no_enh" value="true">
> <PARAM name="use_IP" value="true">
> <PARAM NAME="filenames" VALUE="
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/1.jpg,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/2.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/3.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/4.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/5.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/6.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/7.jpg
> ,
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/8.jpg
> ">
> *****
> If I save the whole source page as an html file and change the above code
> segment to
> *****
> <APPLET codebase="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/applet" archive="aniscode.jar"
> code="AniS.class" WIDTH=700 HEIGHT=580>
> <PARAM NAME="controls" VALUE="startstop, looprock, step, speed, toggle,
> zoom, firstlast, refresh">
> <PARAM NAME="auto_refresh" VALUE="30">
> <PARAM NAME="rate" VALUE="80">
> <PARAM NAME="pause_percent" VALUE="800">
> <PARAM name="no_enh" value="true">
> <PARAM name="use_IP" value="true">
> <PARAM name="image_base" value="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir/">
> <PARAM NAME="filenames"
> VALUE="1.jpg,2.jpg,3.jpg,4.jpg,5.jpg,6.jpg7.jpg,8.jpg">
> ******
> Then loading this file from Firefox now works exactly perfectly... just
> like my Windows XP machine using Sun Java, works on the original
> http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir.html (using the upper code
> example).
>
> The AniS code is described on http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/anis/.
>
> Since the AniS code appears in many web pages, it is a bit annoying to have
> it often not work on my Linux box using Firefox and IcedTea.
>
> Anyone have a clue as to why IcedTea Java won't execute the first given
> code properly. I am really not a Java expert myself.
>