There's an interesting piece today by the people who put together the Java runtime on S60, talking about how they want to streamline Internet connections by Java applets to involve less user prompts. The plan is to put the new system in place in new devices and also in new firmwares for existing devices. About time, too, methinks.
Read on in the full article.
WHEW! One down from my Christmas wish list here 😊
http://cubeover.blogspot.com/2008/10/christmas-wishes-from-n95-s60-firmware.html
Fewer user prompts...
Sorry, couldn't help it; wrestling with some ghastly font tag filled html earlier has really fired up my inner pedant, which is never that far from the surface in any case.
Good to hear. I already set the "allow always" option in the Application Manager settings for midlets that I trust, but this is a far from obvious solution (I think that I only found out about it after reading it somewhere else on AAS).
Looks like they may be dabbling in to MIDP3 which should've gone gold by now, but someone figured Motorola would do a good job at hosting/mediating the information. their open wiki hasn't been updated since April this year!!
Story link needs correcting to: http://blogs.s60.com/2008/10/enhancing-the-security-prompting-for-java-apps
Just a quick correction before anyone thinks it's become possible on S60 to run Java applets (except for the beta-stage SkyFire Web browser): it's MIDlets that all this is about, not traditional Java "applets".
(Java applets have nothing to do with MIDlets and the word 'applet' should never be used when referring to MIDlets.)