[Wylug-help] Java online banking

[Frank Shute]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:49:40AM +0000, Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:
>
> The e-commerce debate has reminded me that my online banking with the
> co-op is not working properly.
>
> It's a Java applet and the GUI seems messed up, e.g:
>
> - you can only see the top half of text in text fields, so some amounts
> are unreadable
>
> - some widgets overlap, hiding parts of the form.
>
> - greyed out text is unreadable
>
>
> I'm using Mandrake 8.2, Mozilla 1.2, libjavaplugin_oji.so from IBM's JRE 1.3.1.
>
> I did download Sun's jre 1.4.1, but that didn't even load the applet.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions or similar experiences?
>

Have you tried with IE and MSs JVM? It could be that the Java is
`Microsoft Java' with it's various incompatabilities. Unfortunately,
client-side Java has been made a minefield by Microsoft deliberately
shipping essentially `proprietary' versions of Java development tools
and JVM.

Sun have got them to cease & desist but the damage has already been
done. How about the OSS community building a specially extended &
mangled version of .NET? ie. one that doesn't work with MS .NET :)

I think Sun's JDK 1.3 is known to work OK with Mozilla but I
haven't used it. I avoid sites that require Java and Flash.

Also have a look at www.mozilla.org for info on Mozilla/Linux/Java and
see what gives.

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