document.applets & object

[Neil Cherry]

I've seen references to using <applets ... > and document.applets to
access public Java functions from Javascript. Do I still use
document.applets with <object ...>?

BTW, the FAQS page seems to be broken.

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[Martin Honnen]

Neil Cherry wrote:

I've seen references to using <applets ... > and document.applets to
access public Java functions from Javascript. Do I still use
document.applets with <object ...>?

Good question but hard to answer, I think that will depend on the
browser and even with a particular browser I am not sure that it could
not depend on the way you use object, whether you use
<object type="application/x-java-applet"
and/or
<object code="java:SomeApplet.class"
or the IE/Win
<object classid="

I think if you use the <object> element to embed your Java applet then a
safe way should be to give it an id attribute and then use
var applet;
if (document.getElementById && (applet =
document.getElementById('objectId')) && typeof applet.methodName !=
'undefined') {
applet.methodName();
}
to call a method if available. That doesn't depend on the browser making
an applet available in document.applets but is supported from IE 5+,
Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 6+.

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[Neil Cherry]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:08:34 +0100, Martin Honnen wrote:

Neil Cherry wrote:

I've seen references to using <applets ... > and document.applets to
access public Java functions from Javascript. Do I still use
document.applets with <object ...>?
Good question but hard to answer, I think that will depend on the
browser and even with a particular browser

I'm currently using Netscape (Firefox 1.0) but I'd like to see it work
(same code or as close as possible) with IE 6.
or the IE/Win
<object classid="
I'm currently using this for IE & Netscape and it correctly calls up
the Java Applet under both (I also use the object in an object with
<!--[if !IE]> trick).
I think if you use the <object> element to embed your Java applet then a
safe way should be to give it an id attribute and then use
var applet;
if (document.getElementById && (applet =
document.getElementById('objectId')) && typeof applet.methodName !=
'undefined') {
applet.methodName();
}
to call a method if available. That doesn't depend on the browser making
an applet available in document.applets but is supported from IE 5+,
Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera 6+.

Excellent! That's what I'll do. Thanks for the help and not poking fun
at my calling the Java method a function. My background is Assembler &
C, so they're all subroutines to me. :-) And I'm doing this for fun
and on-my-own-time education. Thanks again!

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[Jim Ley]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:19:19 -0600, Neil Cherry <nj*@wolfgang.uucp>
wrote:

BTW, the FAQS page seems to be broken.

Do you mean
<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/ > ?

as I don't know of it being down recently, the logs certainly don't
show any holes.

Jim.

[Neil Cherry]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:18:00 GMT, Jim Ley wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:19:19 -0600, Neil Cherry <nj*@wolfgang.uucp>
wrote:

BTW, the FAQS page seems to be broken.

Do you mean
<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/ > ?

as I don't know of it being down recently, the logs certainly don't
show any holes.

Oops, sorry about that, forgot the T. The broken site is:

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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