There seems to be a bug in Netscape 3.0 for Windows 95 (and maybe in other
versions also) that resulted in not showing this page in the Netscape window
itself and/or not being able to download the files. Scrolling or resizing the
Netscape window sometimes solved this problem, but not allways. The problem
seems to be related to taking WIDTH=0 and HEIGHT=0 for the applet. So as a
work-around, I gave the applet a non-zero size, which results in the gray line
below. This gray line is not shown in the HTML viewer window, since it doesn't
support applets. I hope this solves any downloading problems, if not, please
let me know.
HTML browser
The applet on this page invokes a simple HTML browser written in Java.
This browser is not meant to replace your main browser like Netscape or
Explorer. It is meant to be used as a help system for Java applications.
It has the following features:
- Small (less than 50 kB of compiled code).
- Handles images and basic text formatting (HTML 2.0).
- Adjusts width of text to width of frame.
- Automatic vertical scrollbar with smooth scroling.
When using this browser, you must be aware of the following problems and
restrictions:
- Can only handle image formats supported by Java (GIF and JPEG).
- Cannot handle tables, forms or frames.
- There is a bug in
Java 1.0.2
concerning the handling of
HTTP/1.1 headers.
As a result of that, this browser does not work correctly with
some servers (among which is the commonly used Apache 1.2 server).
This problem is solved in Java 1.1.
You can download this browser in one of the following formats:
For copyright issues, see my general Java page.
If you should encounter any problems using this applet
or have any questions or remarks, please contact
Frans van Gool.
History
date version comments
15 May 1997 1.00 first official version
10 June 1997 1.01 some bugs fixed (see problems)