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Error-avoidance strategies
Cool is what works, and nothing else. This page contains
basic information on ensuring that your java and your
webpage work. If you don't do what we advise here,
you may lose face or lose business.
Tip 1. Beware the environment.
Environment = server + network connection + visitor's
hardware, operating system, java virtual machine and browser.
Every page visit and applet view involves a different environment,
because java (like your webpage) runs on your visitor's computer, not your server.
The environment dwarfs java in three big respects:
(i) size, (ii) complexity, (iii) and therefore imperfection.
Cool design involves assessing the likely environments
your clientele will throw at your website and calculating
a backup plan for everything that might reasonably go wrong. (So
don't overlook our own backup recommendations, such as the
escapepage feature and the java-activation detector routines in
this support area).
Tip 2. Beware your ambition.
Cool is not ASP, CGI, streaming multimedia,
multi-applets, cookies etc all in one soup, unless you're on
a closed intranet where the lowest grade machine is seriously
advanced. Cool is what works. Use one
advanced technology or feature fully to great effect.
Use them all and boom. Our most advanced applets offer
pretty well all the features you could wish for in a
navigation menu and more - which doesn't mean you can
necessarily exploit all features to the full simultaneously.
Be judicious. Think bandwidth. Think client machine capacity.
Set your priorities.
Tip 3. Start from what works.
A golden rule of
development is to start from what works, go step by step,
testing on everything at every step, going back if a step
doesn't work. This saves time and money in getting something
to work. To this end we not only supply you with
wizards, tools, documentation and FAQ's, but also many
working demos for you to base your own implementation on
- more working demos by far than any competitor we know of.
Start from what works, test all the way, and you will end up
with what works.
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