{"id":4649,"date":"2012-04-13T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2012-04-13T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:44:19","slug":"java-for-os-x-lion-2012-003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/java-for-os-x-lion-2012-003\/","title":{"rendered":"Java for OS X Lion 2012-003"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5242\">Apple<\/a>:\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5242\"><p>This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12934\">Glenn Fleishman and Rich Mogull<\/a> say that the time period is 35 days.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a reasonable decision, although it&rsquo;s strange that Java can&rsquo;t be re-enabled directly from Safari. I don&rsquo;t think most users know that the Java Preferences app even exists. There doesn&rsquo;t appear to be any imminent danger for cross-platform apps such as CrashPlan, but this move got me thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/13\/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-part-2\/\">Steve Jobs&rsquo;s remarks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/13\/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-part-2\/\"><p>Nobody uses Java anymore. It&rsquo;s this big heavyweight ball and chain.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets. Glenn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}