Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
Now riddle me this - why cannot I not access chat if I'm just going in via plain IE browser? It tells me I have to have latest Java installed, I install it, try to acess chat & get the same message. The only way I can access chat is if I go in through the AOL IE browser.
Cheers.
Java is an application that's built by Sun Microsystems. IE is an application that is built my Microsoft. In order for these two applications to work together, special components are built. Now, if we consider minor releases, let's say that there are 10 versions of Java in the last year. Let's say that there are also 10 versions of IE in a year. Are we expected to believe that they make 100 versions of the components that allow these two applications to work together? Chances are that they don't. They pretty much assume that each version is going to work flawlessly with the other ones. They do some testing, but there are always going to be some combinations that just plum don't work right together.