Swing visualization tool

[ciphergoth]

My election swing visualisation tool is now an official LShift project, and is now hosted here:

http://election.lshift.net/

Please spread the word, and let me know what you think!

It might now even work with IE...

Comments

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I get the page but the picture just gives that little red X in the top left, in a 'can't display the pic' kind of way
[work IE 6.0 again, but usually does video and pics fine]

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work with the Java that comes with IE, you still need the latest Java plugin from Sun. Sorry!

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Evil non-standards-compliant Paul! No biscuit!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find that's "evil non-standards-compliant Microsoft", thank you very much. They have quite deliberately allowed the version of Java they ship to slip way out of date, because they want Java to die.

[babysimon]

...and now Paul learns why no-one writes applets any more.

If it's any consolation, in my last job I had custody of a swign applet (implementing a trading floor). You can imagine how much fun we had with IE users.

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK, sorry. Could also be that work haven't seen fit to give us all the latest patches/downloads/fixes/all those thingys that my home computer used to tell me I needed when I used IE. Given that they've got enough problems ensuring a power supply to their main server. Just a slight hitch, given that we're currently piloting an online filing system...

So what's M$'s bright solution then if Java ain't it? Not run any programs if they didn't sell you them?

[barakta]

No solution?

Or some commercialised bloaty proprietary piece of crap? i.e the Usual M$ strategy!

*fears*

Natalya

[meico.livejournal.com]

c#

Bleh!

[meico.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. maybe that was too terse...

Microsoft has their own bytecode interpreted language that they are pushing. It is called C#, which is a play on the name of the C and C++ programming languages.

In many ways it is an excellent language, however it has a few little insidious traps that lock you into the MS platform.

"i.e. the Usual M$ strategy!" - yep.

[stgpcm.livejournal.com]

Active-X controls, of course!

[babysimon]

Ooh, that's nice.

[bathtubgin.livejournal.com]

I shall assume this is a fabulous tool. Unfortunately, my appreciation of it is more along the lines of "Oooh! Pretty!", since I doen't have a hope in hell of understanding it.

*Dons dunce hat and sits quietly, facing the wall*