browser : Java Glossary

Best Browsers

Please select one of these modern browsers to download and install free.
Click the corresponding browser icon to download the latest free browser software, or click the browser name for more information.
	Firefox	10.0	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Its support of Java is erratic. Most widely supported next to IE. Many add-ins. Very fast rendering. Weak on table rendering. Best for printing.
	SeaMonkey	2.7	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Similar to Firefox, with integrated Email.
	Opera	11.61	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Cannot handle JavaScript Google AdSense ads. Otherwise fast and light. Accurate CSS. Often hangs when you exit.
	Google Chrome	16.0.912.75	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Frequently updated. Has no edit source button. Fast starting. Flaky supports of Applets and Java Web Start. Poor downloading. Handles foreign language sites particularly well.
	Safari	5.1.2	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. For both Macs and PCs. Some rendering problems. Simple and stripped down.
	IE9	9.0.8112,16421	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Not recommended. This browser is hopeless at Java, especially the 64-bit version. Some websites will work with no other browser.
	IE8	8.0.7601.17514	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Out of spite, blocks Java unless you OK. It has many bugs and crashes frequently. Renders column classes correctly.
	IE7	7.0.6000	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. It is pain to get Java Web Start working.
	IE6	6.0.2800	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. Not secure.
	Avant	2012:21	with the Java 1.7.0_02 JRE. It is a fast browser, especially at starting up. Has problems with JavaScript. Excellent at rendering and printing tables. It uses the Firefox rendering engine. Handles Applets, but has trouble with Java Web Start.
	Oracle’s Java	1.7.0_02	JRE

Terminology

Performance

• Buy more RAM.
• Tweak/tune/configure/adjust your TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) connection. This will speed up all your internet connections and downloads, not just the ones you do with your browser, perhaps by as much as 100 times. Try any or all of these tuning tools to see which works best for you: TCP Optimizer, TweakMaster or TweakDUN.
• If you use Firefox or IE, consider installing the Google Accelerator.

Detecting Which Browser

Browser Bugs

Opera: ignores <col format settings for table columns. Ignores CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) max-width property. Does not support CSS overflow to permit scrolling tables. Can’t access a printer to print a selection in Vista.

Netscape: Does not display borders on Applets.

Firefox: Does not display borders on Applets. Ignores <col class and alignment settings for table columns.

Mozilla: Does not display borders on Applets.

SeaMonkey: draws boxes needlessly around links that consist of an image plus text.

Internet Explorer: does not render *.png image files with transparent backgrounds properly. In the latest update of IE (Internet Explorer), it won’t render Applets unless you click on them. This makes Applets like CurrCon which displays all the prices on a page in your local currency useless. This is just another part of Microsoft’s dirty war against Java.

Report bugs to the vendors in their support forums. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Setting Default Font

• In the Opera Browser, Click Tools ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Advanced ⇒ Web pages and select your basic default fonts, sizes and colours. Click Tools ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Advanced ⇒ Fonts. Pick your default fonts for the various purposes. Also you can set up fonts to use for various international Languages. Use Latin-Extended-A for Esperanto.
• In Firefox, click Tools ⇒ Options ⇒ Content ⇒ Fonts & colours ⇒ Advanced. Set up Turkish and Unicode for Esperanto.
• In Netscape, click Tools ⇒ Options ⇒ General ⇒ Fonts & Colours. Set up your fonts for the various character encodings. Western, Unicode, User-Defined, Turkish, Baltic and central European may all need to be modified. Unfortunately they don’t tell you the official encoding name, just the country. If at first you don’t succeed, try some different fonts. I did get it to work eventually. Set up Unicode and Turkish for Esperanto.
• In Mozilla, Click edit ⇒ preferences ⇒ appearance ⇒ fonts. Set up Turkish and Unicode for Esperanto.
• In SeaMonkey, click Edit ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Appearance ⇒ Fonts.
• In Internet Explorer Click Tools ⇒ Internet Options ⇒ General ⇒ Fonts. Select your fonts for the various character encodings. If at first you don’t succeed, try some different fonts. I did get it to work eventually.

Rant

If HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) were a compact, preparsed binary format, that would eliminate nearly all of the malformed HTML in the universe. That would also mean it would be much likely if a document were tested on only one browser, it would render properly on all of them, or at least most of them. As a side effect it would dowload twice as fast, and render more quickly.

Engaging the Java Console in Your Browser

If you are in a browser you have to enable to console before you can see it. Avant and Chrome do not support Java, or more precisely, their support does not work. Safari does support the Java console.

 Sea Monkey Engaging the Console

1. Click Edit.
2. Click Preferences.
3. Click Advanced.
4. Click “Enable Java”.
5. Click OK.

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

1. Click Tools.
2. Click “Web Development”.
3. Click “Java console”.

 Opera Engaging the Console

1. Click Tools.
2. Click Advanced.
3. Click “Java Console”.

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista/W7-32/W7-64, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

1. Click Tools.
2. Click Advanced.
3. Click “Java console”.

 Internet Explorer Engaging the Console

1. Click Tools.
2. Click “Internet Options”.
3. Click Advanced.
4. Click “Java Sun”.
5. Select Use Java (pick latest). Do not use the MS JVM (Java Virtual Machine).

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.
12. Restart your browser.

1. Applications
2. Utilities
3. Java Preferences Application.
4. Click Advanced.
5. Click “Show Console”.
6. Restart your browser.

1. Click Tools.
2. Click “Sun Java console”.

 Java.exe Engaging the Console

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.

  javaws.exe Engaging the Console

1. start javaws.exe
2. Click edit.
3. Click preferences.
4. Click advanced.
5. Click “+ Java console”.
6. Click “Show Console”.
7. Click OK.

 safari Engaging the Console

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

 firefox Engaging the Console

1. Click Tools.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Content.
4. click “Enable Java”.
5. click OK.

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

 Mozilla Engaging the Console

1. Click Edit.
2. Click Preferences.
3. Click Advanced.
4. Click “Enable Java”.
5. Click OK.

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

1. Click Tools.
2. Click “Web Development”.
3. Click “Java console”.

 Netscape Engaging the Console

1. Click  
2. Click Advanced.
3. Click “Enable Java”.
4. Click Done.

1. Click “task bar Start”.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click “Control Panel”.
4. On Vista, click Programs.
5. Double click Java.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click “+ Java console”.
8. Click “Show Console”.
9. Click OK.
10. Click File.
11. Click Close.

DOM (Document Object Model)

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