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Recent news
WebMO 8.0 is now available for free download!
WebMO 8.0 Pro and Enterprise have a variety of additional features and is available for
purchase.
WebMO can now be installed on Windows, Mac, and Unix servers!
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July 4, 2008
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WebMO Supported Web Browsers
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The following is a list of browsers that are supported by WebMO, organized by platform. WebMO compatibility
is limited by the vendors support for Java, LiveConnect and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technology, which continues to improve. This list
will be updated as support improves.
Windows
- Internet Explorer 4+ (optional Sun Java Plug-in; see notes 1, 2)
- Mozilla Firefox (requires Sun Java Plug-in; see note 1)
- Netscape 6.2+ (see note 1)
Macintosh OS X
- Options for OS X 10.3 or higher
- Options for OS X Pre 10.3
Unix/Linux
Notes
- Installing Sun Java Plug-in for Windows
The Sun Java Plug-in is required to run Java applets on recent version of Netscape
and all versions of Mozilla. Optionally, it also works with Internet Explorer to provided
enhanced Java support (for example, enhanced GUI through Swing).
This plug in is available for
free download from Sun. Select the most
recent non-beta version, and download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Double click on the
installation file, and follow the prompts to install the plug-in.
The 'Browser' tab of the 'Java Plug-In' control panel can be used to enable or disable the
plug-in for each browser. This can be used to toggle between the Microsoft and Sun Java Virtual
Machine when running Java applets in Internet Explorer.
- Installing Microsoft JVM for Windows
Due to legal differences between Microsoft and Sun, some versions of Windows XP do not
come with the Microsoft Java VM built-in. (Pre-SP1 does not have java, SP1 before February
2003 comes with JVM build 3805, and SP1A after February 2003 does not have Java.) You can
determine the presence and version of the Microsoft Java VM by opening a Command Prompt session
and typing 'jview', which will either report the current version of java or not be recognized
if Java is not present.
Microsoft no longer offers the Microsoft Java VM from their website. However, you can do an
Internet search for "msjavax86.exe", download it from elsewhere, and install it.
Once a version of the Microsoft Java VM has been installed, then Windows Update will permit it to be
updated to the latest version (which was build 3809 as of March 2003).
- Mac OS X 10.3+ Browser Compatability
Java 1.4.2 (available from Apple as a System Update) is required to enable LiveConnect on OS X 10.3.
A small plug-in is also required to enable LiveConnect on these browsers. This plug-in can be obtained from
SourceForge.net. To install the Java Embedding Plugin (JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle)
and the MRJ Plugin JEP (MRJPlugin.plugin), drag them to the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder. Detailed information can be found from the plug-in
project website.
- Mac OS X Pre 10.3 Browser Compatability
At the present time, WebMO will ONLY work with the browser versions listed above on OS X 10.1 and 10.2. More recent
versions of Mozilla (ex. Mozilla 1.4) currently do not work due to the use of a different Java engine that does not support LiveConnect
on older versions of OS X.
WebMO with Nescape or Mozilla requires the installation of a small plug-in so to enable
LiveConnect JavaScript to Java communication. Download and uncompress the plug-in.
Open up a terminal, and execute the following commands,
% cd download_dir/MRJPlugin
% sudo ./install_plugin.sh
- Installing Sun Java Plug-in for Linux
This Sun JRE is available for
free download from Sun. Select the most
recent non-beta version, and download the Linux RPM in self-extracting file version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Install the JRE,
% chmod a+x j2sdk-1_4_xxx-linux-i586-rpm.bin
% ./j2sdk-1_4_xxx-linux-i586-rpm.bin (agree to license)
% su
# rpm -Uhv j2sdk-1_4_xxx-fcs-linux-i586.rpm
The JRE needs to be enabled as a Mozilla or Netscape plugin by creating a symbolic link to
a plugin library of the JRE. This library is located at
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.xxx/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
or
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.xxx/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
depending on which version of gcc your browser was compiled with. Generally, for newer versions
of the browser, try the ns610-gcc32 version first. If that fails, try the ns610 version.
Create a link to this plugin library file in the Mozilla/Netscape plugin directory. This directory is most likely
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/,
# ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.xxx/jre/plugin/i386/ns610(-gcc32)/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
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