Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 July 2005 03:07, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> >On Thursday 07 July 2005 21:45, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> >>I believe Sun recommends upgrading. Whatever version I have currently
> >>installed in SuSE 9.0, obtained directly from Sun, fails Sun's own
> >>javascript tests (I forget the URL they provide for that).
> >
> >What does that mean? Java has nothing to do with javascript, other than a
> >similarity in name. Java is from Sun, javascript is from netscape. They
> > are not related, and use nothing from each other.
>
> All I know is one website referred me to a URL on java.sun.com for some
> compatibility test. This was after a javascript failed to execute
> properly. The test on Sun reported failure, and the recommendation was
> to upgrade the JRE to 1.5.

I would hazard a guess that the piece of javascript was trying to load a java 
applet, and that that loading failed. Javascript itself has nothing whatever 
to do with java and will be totally unaffected by any upgrade of your jvm