Why doesn Suns Javascript Web Start detection script work for my household browser?
Sun’s Javascript Web Start detection script works only with Netscape 4.x and Internet Explorer. If you use Netscape 6.x, Mozilla, Opera or other browsers, Sun’s Web Start detection script fails because Netscape 6.x, Opera and Mozilla, for example, implement navigator.mimeTypes different than Netscape 4.x. In conclusion, don’t include Sun’s Javascript Web Start detection script into your HTML page unless you work for Microsoft, instead point directly to the jnlp file. Using Sun’s Javascript Web Start detection script not only blocks all browsers other than Internet Explorer but also hinders HTML parsers to retrieve the embedded jnlp links, in case you want to use the HTML page as Web Start’s default app page, for example.
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