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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 02:22 AM UTC:
Due to being blocked by Java security, the Java applets for playing Chess
variants no longer work. This affects Coffee Chinese Chess and all of Ed
Friedlander's apps. So I have removed Java apps from the Play submenu. That
leaves Game Courier as the main thing on the Play subdomain. So I decided
to make the Play subdomain for Game Courier specifically. I moved the index
page for Game Courier to the root folder of the subdomain, and I moved all
the preset pages there too, as well as updating their URLs in the database.
This will give better URLs to the games you can play on Game Courier. I am
also considering changing the name of Game Courier to something that
reflects the domain name, such as the Chess Variants Playroom. That gets
"play" in the name, and it gives it a location name, which seems more
suitable for a place on the web than a verb name does. I've also considered
Playground, Playpen, and Playhouse. The first two seem a bit juvenile, and
the third describes either a pretend house or a theater, rather than a
place for playing.

Also, I'm posting here, because the homepage for the subdomain is
unindexed, and I cannot use the Edit link to fix this. This has something
to do with the new site handling .htaccess differently. I may fix it later
by bypassing the use of .htaccess for accessing certain pages.

Ben Reiniger wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 03:01 AM UTC:
Ed's applets still work on my machines (with a couple of warning messages
to click through).

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 01:58 PM UTC:
I simply can't get his applets to work. What is your setup?

Ben Reiniger wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 05:36 PM UTC:
I have a desktop running Linux Mint, Firefox with IcedTea plugin.  It
doesn't work with Chromium.

I also have a laptop running Ubuntu, Firefox I think again with IcedTea. 
I'll double check this later.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 08:37 PM UTC:
I loaded up Ubuntu from my previous computer's harddrive, and I got one of
Ed's apps working too. In my case, my installation of Ubuntu is old, and
it is running an old version of Java. How recent is your version of Java?
My version on Windows 7 is the latest, update 66 of version 8.

Ben Reiniger wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 09:00 PM UTC:
My Mint machine seems to have Java version 7, update 79; IcedTea-Web1.5;
Firefox 40.0.3

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 09:48 PM UTC:
This actually started with version 7, update 51. But it can be remedied by
putting our domain in an exceptions list. I already had
play.chessvariants.org in my Java exceptions list, but I didn't have
play.chessvariants.com. I put it in today, and the apps are now working. I
added a note to Java apps in the Play subdomain about this, and I put Java
apps back in the menu.

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