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Version 0.20 - July 10, 1996

1. Download
2. Installation
3. Debugging
4. Comment

Java Source or compiled class (binary) plus default.gif.

NeXTClock Applet 2. Installation

Download the binary class, as well default.gif, put them into the same directory, and add in your html-file following lines:

<applet codebase="./" code=NeXTClock.class

width=64 height=64>

</applet>

Change codebase path if the applet class is somewhere else than the html-document.

If you like to have it on your X11-Desktop, look at AfterStep, there asclock (AfterStep Clock) part of the distribution which was written by Beat Christen.

NeXTClock Applet 3. Debugging

The java-source is pretty simple (except cumbersome updating) and programmed without much overhead, the most often problem is that java_core of previous version of Netscape Navigator, and the version don't match, then NullPointException and alike errors appear instead the applet.

NeXTClock Applet 4. Comment

I don't see java really taking off, it's still buggy, and I can't spend any 30 mins on a site who runs java-applet without causing my Netscape Navigator-4.04 for Linux to crash. I'm amazed people consider java as fun ... (hey, I wrote this back in 1998 and by June 2001 this is still true).

                                                                                                                                   

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