The intention of this article is to provide a guide to webmasters for placing the Freemind Browser (which is a Java Applet) using an 'object' element, instead of the deprecated 'applet' element.
An example of the deprecated code used for placing the Freemind Mindmap in an XHTML document is:
<applet code="freemind.main.FreeMindApplet.class" archive="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" width="600" height="400">
<param name="type" value="application/x-java-applet;version=1.4" />
<param name="scriptable" value="false" />
<param name="modes" value="freemind.modes.browsemode.BrowseMode" />
<param name="browsemode_initial_map" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/Polietileno.mm" />
<param name="initial_mode" value="Browse" />
<param name="selection_method" value="selection_method_direct" />
</applet>
Transforming the deprecated applet element using Shayne Steele's approach would yield the following code:
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object classid="java:freemind.main.FreeMindApplet.class" type="application/x-java-applet" archive="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" width="600" height="400">
<param name="archive" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" />
<param name="scriptable" value="false" />
<param name="modes" value="freemind.modes.browsemode.BrowseMode" />
<param name="browsemode_initial_map" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/Polietileno.mm" />
<param name="initial_mode" value="Browse" />
<param name="selection_method" value="selection_method_direct" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<object classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93" codebase="http://java.sun.com/update/1.5.0/jinstall-1_5_0-windows-i586.cab" width="600" height="400">
<param name="code" value="freemind.main.FreeMindApplet" />
<param name="archive" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" />
<param name="scriptable" value="false" />
<param name="modes" value="freemind.modes.browsemode.BrowseMode" />
<param name="browsemode_initial_map" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/Polietileno.mm" />
<param name="initial_mode" value="Browse" />
<param name="selection_method" value="selection_method_direct" />
<strong>
This browser does not have a Java Plug-in.
</strong>
<br />
<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/downloads/index.html">
Get the latest Java Plug-in here.
</a>
</object>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
As you can see... it works!
I was looking for an easier way of placing the mindmap, and I found out that b
I got inspired by a page that details how to place quicktime movies as nested objects , while hiding one of them from Internet Explorer using CSS. I decided to give it a try. Converting 'mov' to 'java', and having the parent object have a class='java' attribute does the trick. The following code has to be placed in the head of the (X)HTML Document:
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
/* hides the first object from all versions of IE */
* html object.java {
display: none;
}
/* displays the first object in all versions of IE apart from 5 on PC */
* html object.java/**/ {
display: inline;
}
/* hides the first object from all versions of IE >= 5.5 */
* html object.java {
display/**/: none;
}
/*]]>*/</style>
<![endif]-->
And now, adding a 'class' attribute to the first element with a value of 'java' (and removing the conditional comments), we get the following code:
<object class="java" classid="java:freemind.main.FreeMindApplet.class" type="application/x-java-applet" archive="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" width="600" height="400">
<param name="archive" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" />
<param name="scriptable" value="false" />
<param name="modes" value="freemind.modes.browsemode.BrowseMode" />
<param name="browsemode_initial_map" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/Polietileno.mm" />
<param name="initial_mode" value="Browse" />
<param name="selection_method" value="selection_method_direct" />
<object classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93" codebase="http://java.sun.com/update/1.5.0/jinstall-1_5_0-windows-i586.cab" width="600" height="400">
<param name="code" value="freemind.main.FreeMindApplet" />
<param name="archive" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/freemindbrowser.jar" />
<param name="scriptable" value="false" />
<param name="modes" value="freemind.modes.browsemode.BrowseMode" />
<param name="browsemode_initial_map" value="http://rolandog.com/freemind/Polietileno.mm" />
<param name="initial_mode" value="Browse" />
<param name="selection_method" value="selection_method_direct" />
<strong>
This browser does not have a Java Plug-in.
</strong>
<br />
<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/downloads/index.html">
Get the latest Java Plug-in here.
</a>
</object>
</object>
So, now let us test-drive this code:
There shouldn't be any problems, theoretically...
I still don't know why it doesn't work, but I decided to write a page detailing how to place the Java Applet using DOM methods .
JavaScript is another name for ECMAScript. Freemind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. Questions, comments? Email: rolandog@gmail.com . Visit: http://rolandog.com/ , http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ .