| Some of the pages on my web site, like this one, now require that
you have the Java Runtime Environment
installed on your PC or they won't be displayed properly.
I use a Java Applet to make it easier to pan left and right through wide panoramic images.
The example picture below is of an amazing sunset in Calgary. If you have the
Java Runtime Environment installed on your PC, you will see this picture and it
will be scrolling slowly to the right. If you click on this picture with your left
mouse button the scrolling will stop and you can manually drag the picture left and right
with your mouse. If you want to re-start the automatic scrolling, just click on the picture
with your right mouse button. If you don't click on the picture it will scroll to the right
as far as it can then it will start scrolling to the left, then back to the right and so
on forever. Note that applet has some simple build in help information that can be accessed
by clicking on the text in the top left of the picture.
If you don't see the sunset picture above and instead you see something like
"Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.", or
"Click here to download plugin.", or you just see a blank gray area where the picture is supposed
to be then you likely need to install the Java Runtime Environment.
You can install the Java Runtime Environment by going to
java.com and following the instructions
there. Those instructions may vary depending on which browser you have. If you are using
Internet Explorer you may be able to use the automatic installation, otherwise you
will have to use the manual process which is quite simple as summarized below:
- Go to java.com
- Click on the Download button next to Windows (Offline Installation) (that
should be the second Download button from the top).
- Save the jre-1_5_0_05-windows-i586-p.exe file to your desktop or some other temporary
location.
- Close your Browser and run jre-1_5_0_05-windows-i586-p.exe to install the
Java Runtime Environment (you should be able to accept all the default installation options).
- Open your Browser and come back to this page to confirm that everything is working fine or go back to java.com
and click on Verify Installation button there.
- You can delete jre-1_5_0_05-windows-i586-p.exe now if you want.
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