R search applet initialization

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Michele" == Michele Alzetta <mikalzet@libero.it> writes:

    Michele> R 1.5.1 is due to come out ... and I've just
    Michele> noticed that the R help.start page search applet
    Michele> doesn't work on my Mandrake 8.2 system even though
    Michele> I've upgraded mozilla to version 1.0 and I have a
    Michele> perfectly working java (all right, I'm using 1.4.0
    Michele> now, but with mozilla 0.98 and java 1.3.1 it still
    Michele> didn't work). I had thought the problem due to a
    Michele> too-old mozilla version, but it doesn't seem to be
    Michele> that now.

    Michele> Error messages throughout changes in versions of
    Michele> mozilla and java are consistent: the java applet
    Michele> doesn't get initialized.

I can confirm that with Mozilla 1.0 (20020605) 
and
	help.start(browser = "mozilla")
the search applet gives the same error message and
search/keywords are not working whereas with
	help.start(browser = "netscape")
(with quite an old version of netscape) the search applet
 *does* work.

(this is a highly up-patched redhat 7.1)

    Michele> Could this be a problem with default mandrake file
    Michele> permissions ?  Is it possible to download just the
    Michele> apple source code and a description of how it is
    Michele> supposed to work from somewhere on CRAN ?  How
    Michele> could I go about debugging this ?

(I have not tried yet to debug.  Always felt  Mozilla should be able to
 work as well as old netscape ..)

Martin
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