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Dave Hyatt finally got around to posting to his weblog about the release of Safari 1.2. Some really good stuff has gone into it and congratulations are in order for all involved.

Sadly, my most anticipated feature, LiveConnect, appears to be broken. I’ve seen it work when going from JavaScript to Java, but never managed to get JSObject working to communicate from Java to JavaScript. Dave’s blog is actually the first place that I’ve ever seen that actually mentions going both ways, or at least that what I assume he means by:

allowing for bi-directional communication between Javascript and Java

Certainly Apple closed the original bug I had filed about JSObject not working. (I’ve since opened a new bug report about the new issues).

If anyone has a simple example of Java to JavaScript communication working in Safari I’d love to see it - I just can’t believe that Apple wouldn’t have done any testing on it so it must work in at least some situations.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 at 5:09 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the Atom feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Safari”

  1. Craigmile Says:
    May 11th, 2004 at 1:03 am

    I am having the same problem (in Safari 1.2.1(v125.1)). Javascript to Java communication works fine. However, using JSObject from within Java (1.4.2) causes Safari and the whole machine to hang (the beach ball stays up indefinately).


  2. David Whewell Says:
    August 17th, 2004 at 8:41 pm

    Have you had any resolution on this problem? i have recently come across it myself, same setup, and can’t find any information on how to get an applet to talk to the webpage aside from using JSObject which of course crashes safari (and hangs on firefox under windows…)

    any news please drop me an email. thanks!


  3. Craig Sizer Says:
    October 20th, 2004 at 10:28 am

    Anyone have any info on this problem? I still have the problem with firefox pre-release 1.0. Any news on a fix?


  4. Adrian Sutton Says:
    October 20th, 2004 at 11:15 am

    Firefox is a completely different browser and suffers from a completely different problem (which has the same symptoms). The Safari problem is fixed in the most recent versions (with a few bugs still remaining that can be worked around). At this stage Firefox is a poor choice of browser on OS X for Java support (unfortunately).


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