See this on Mac(OS 9.1) Mac 2001-10-11-03 0.9.4 Branch (not a problem on Win or Linux builds) Stesp to repro: 1) Go to http://www.aol.com/aim/aimexpress.html 2)Click the Start button on that page. This will invoke a java Buddy list where you can sign into AIM Expected results: After a dialog appears saying "Please wait a moment..", you will get a pop up "Sign on" dialog for AIM java client. Actual results: A dialog appears saying "Please wait a moment..", but the AIM java sign on dialog never appears.

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Based on what I see on my Win2k machine it appears that the "Please wait..." dialog is attempting to launch a standalone Java applet. Unfortunately the process it uses to get to this point is somewhat convoluted and not easily debugged. As a side note, someone should suggest to AOL that they clean this page up. It is rife with JS warnings and doesn't work at all with "dom.disable_open_during_load" enabled.

This fails to work because the MRJ plugin does not load the applet if it has no size (i.e. height and width are both 0.) I also had a secondary problem with the OS 9 version where it generated a java.lang.exception on launch. I can no longer reproduce this error. I'm not sure what was causing it but, it is apparently not related to this specific issue, and is likely a problem with the applet itself.

Patrick, Peter, can you review please?

Comment on attachment 66825 [details] [diff] [review] Patch for OS9 Plugin r=peterl

Comment on attachment 66826 [details] [diff] [review] Patch for the OSX Plugin r=peterl

Comment on attachment 66825 [details] [diff] [review] Patch for OS9 Plugin sr=beard

Comment on attachment 66826 [details] [diff] [review] Patch for the OSX Plugin sr=beard

Fixes checked into both OS9 and OSX plugin projects.

Verified both on mac os 9.2 and OS 10.1 (2002-01-30-08-trunk)