44830 - navigator.javaEnabled always returns false

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Andy Keep]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000613
BuildID:    2000061311

I have not tested this on every platform, but I have noticed that on the M16
build of Mozilla, the navigator.javaEnabled () function always returns false, no
matter what I have the preference set to in my browser.  I suppose this could be
because in this version Java is never enabled, but since Mozilla uses a lot of
java (or so i have been told) i doubt that... so... (I am marking as normal
because i don't know a work around.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. check preferences - make sure java is enabled.
2. go to url indicated (http://www.robotman.org/brokemozilla/javaenabled.html)
3. click on click here (result is an alert box with 'java enabled: false' in it,
though it should be true.	)

Actual Results:  as stated, navigator.javaEnabled () call returns false.	

Expected Results:  navigator.javaEnabled () should have returned true.	

a simple demonstration

<a href="javascript:alert('java enabled: '+navigator.javaEnabled());">click here</a>

this returns false no matter what the preference indication is.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning; not an Engine issue. Is Networking the right component?
A JavaScript URI is behind the link at the given Web page...

Comment 2

[fig\tree]

Mozilla uses a lot of JavaScript the scripting language, not related to Java the
hyped up language. Marking INVALID because Mozilla does not officially support
Java at this point (API incompatibilities the last time I checked), although
Java might work on certain platforms.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Java problem not ours. Marking as verified.