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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ericvicenti said 6:35PM on 9-24-2008
Uhh.. How does this merit a post?
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Jonathan Chan said 6:47PM on 9-24-2008
maybe cause some readers wouldn't check software update otherwise.
Schonathan Jwartz said 6:38PM on 9-24-2008
People still use Java?
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Jonathan Chan said 6:48PM on 9-24-2008
Azureus ;-)
RobK said 7:43PM on 9-24-2008
Yes many Mac users tend to avoid Java applications but a lot of web sites still use Java for applets etc
So if you really want to surf the net without many hassles, you need JAVA.
Rob
required said 9:57PM on 9-24-2008
Just because it didn't come from Apple doesn't mean it's not popular. Billions upon billions use it every day. Seriously it is everywhere, it is even on Mars.
John Doe said 6:53PM on 9-24-2008
Coffee?
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required said 9:58PM on 9-24-2008
Yes please.
Chris said 9:14PM on 9-24-2008
Java is a must have for any modern browser/OS and if you don't see that well then, FAIL!
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ThePengwin said 9:20PM on 9-24-2008
You mean like the iPhone?
steve said 9:34PM on 9-24-2008
still no java6 for anyone but 64bit intel users i assume.
apple can bite me
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bobics said 1:16AM on 9-25-2008
I concur. I end up using SoyLatte for dev work... which isn't ideal. :(
Jacques Lema said 2:10AM on 9-25-2008
That one is really miserable. Windows has had java 1.6 for ages and Linux has had it too.
If you convinced your boss you could work with java just a well on a mac and you have to use java 6, you're in a sad situation.
I guess you could just reboot into windows .. or use VMware to run java... sigh.
Richard. said 10:06PM on 9-24-2008
Hopefully the spellcheck now works in this version, cause they removed it last java update. I've had to keep selecting v1.42 to use if I wanted spellcheck in my applets.
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Richard. said 12:04AM on 9-25-2008
This update completely removes the ability to enable smooth text, it's ridiculous!
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skrab said 4:42PM on 10-07-2008
Hi! after installation(from application update), several apps where in dutch on my swedish system, so fetch the new java from apples site, that fixed the problem!!
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James said 9:36AM on 9-25-2008
I think a lot of people confuse Java with Javascript. Java is NOT really used that much at all. Javascript, on the other hand, is used virtually everywhere. This update does NOTHING for Javascript.
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eatmytag said 10:23AM on 9-25-2008
Bah! I thought that Apple at last had released 1.6 for 32 bit Intel machines.
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frostY said 2:00PM on 9-25-2008
I think Java desktop apps have an undeserved bad reputation. I use several Java apps on a daily basis, and they work great. Swing have really improved the last couple of years, and performance and look-and-feel is now good. On OS X they can even be made to feel 100% native. I have been using the excellent Cyberduck FTP client for years thinking it was a native app before I found out that it is actually written in Java.
It is very sad to see that Apple is so slow to adopt the latest Java platform. Because of this, it is not possible to use OS X as a primary development platform for Java apps. Apple has done a great job of adapting Java to OS X, but I wish they would work faster. Soon Java 7 will be out, but it will probably take years before that one comes to OS X.
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Leo said 7:36PM on 9-26-2008
Check out Zipeg http://www.zipeg.com
It is Java. Try to open encrypted mutipart RAR file by BOM Archive Helper.
BTW, speaking of new techonologies Objective C:
"Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Stepstone."
NeXT Step:
"Nextstep 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989 after several previews starting in 1986"
And to be 100% honest - both of them so dated, obsolete and hard to comprehend. Unreliable too.
Welcome to 21st century.