RadioBanter - Smith Chart vs JAVA

In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:15:07 GMT, John Ferrell
wrote:

In my quest to understand Smith Charts better I ran across a very
interesting site at Agilent
http://www.educatorscorner.com/index...ONTENT_ID=2482
Unfortunately, it would not work since I did not have Java on my
machine. A little Google time later, I located the necessary free
download (after reading of legal maneuvers) and installed it. Then the
link worked fine. Nice site, very helpful.

Since they offer a free download I thought it best to capture my own
copy of this for the future. After I download & unzip it, it does not
want to function from my machine. I would rather spend the computer
time with antennas rather than trying to figure out this computer
puzzle. Anyone have a SIMPLE solution?

Hi John,

I unzipped all the contents into a dedicated folder.

I double-clicked the file SChart.html located inside the dedicated
folder. Works fine for Firefox.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

And it works fine using Camino on my G4 PowerMac. (Camino is rather like
Firefox, but it make direct use of Macintosh system calls and thus is
much, much faster than Firefox.) I had the thing working about 3 seconds
after downloading it. Java is Java is Java and should be completely
platform-independent. But if the original poster is using Internet
Exploder, that may the be problem. The mozilla.org browsers are safe,
they have Java built-in, and anyway he should replace IE with Firefox
for his computer's health's sake and not just to make Java work in the
browser.

David, ex-W8EZE

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