Help!! J2SE 1.4.1 Not working on pagebuilder and yahoo chats...help ple

Question

hi
I am having trouble with loading geocities pagebuilder which uses java. It used to load ok but not anymore...also i cannot access yahoo chats which also use java...yahoo tells me that it might be my java not running properly....
can anyone assist me to correct this problem?
thanks
mike

Answer 1

It is not a problem with Java.. It is a problem with Yahoo.. See this below from another forum..
"Alright, this is why the chat applet won't load (in anything but old
versions of ie and netscape). Yahoo's applet is out of date. It uses
the older versions of Java, of which there are numerous amounts. It
used to be that when new classes (or functions) were created for Java,
each browser would input them into the language differently. There
were so many different types of Java that it was a real pain to
programers.
Recently Sun Microsystems (the creators of Java) re-created Java and
forced all browsers to use it. IE refused, so forget about them
completeley, they don't support Java, and that's where all those
monopoly suites started. The new Netscape browsers (6.0 and up)
support java, and so does Opera. The problem is that many of the sites
that have applets either didn't want to update their sites, or they
didn't know that Java had changed. You must find out if the site
supports the Netscape or IE version of Java and use an old Netscape or
IE browser to view the site.
The consequence for Opera and Netscape is that they use JAVA 1.3 onwards so cant load yahoo chat. Internet Explorer will run chat as long as you use Virtual Machine by MS (which is no longer available cos they dont make it any more), but if you try to run Java 1.4 in IE it will not work.
So basically, Yahoo chat is not written in Proper Java, and will not
run on any browser running Java? Only old browsers using either early
netscape Java or Internet Explorer running the now defunct Virtual
Machine.
Wether or not Yahoo actually bother to rewrite the software is another
matter, of course this means that once everyone in the world has
updated to Java 1.4 and above (which they have to, cos it's the only
option, opera and netscape use it, and Internet explorer now doesnt
even support java properly) Yahoo will simply not work at all....."
The solution to this is to use Microsoft Virtual Machine for accesing Yahoo chat etc, (if you have a copy cos its hard to find now) and hope that all these people rewrite there software to support java properly.