Subject: Re: NetBSD Java-capable browsers?
To: Soren Jacobsen <soren@blef.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/14/2003 13:01:37
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Soren Jacobsen wrote:

> On 05/14 00:03, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > If I want to use a Java-capable web-browser on NetBSD, what options do I
> > have other than the GNU/LINUX version of Netscape?  Is there any?
> >
> > Preferably one that isn't tied to a particular window-manager/desktop.
> > (E.g., Konqueror is less than ideal, but if it can do Java I could probably
> > convince myself to build KDE for it.)
>
> I've successfully used native phoenix with a native jdk13 build.
> http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html for information on
> building a native jdk. Just build the plugin and go. Simple. This should
> work for any other browser that can handle Netscape plugins, though
> phoenix and mozilla are the only ones I've tried.

	Would anyone be interested in submitting a pkgsrc entry - or
	would the be legal reasons for not making it available in such
	a form? I would have thought it would be fine providing the user
	has to download the SDK & patchset by hand...?
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