Compatibility

The only serious compatibility issue is the method used to specify the size of the image used. In Internet Explorer, it is possible to put the image size in the web-page as a parameter to the applet. This does not work in Netscape, and there does not appear to be a way around this without using Swing, so the applet has to be recompiled for different image sizes.

Although not a compatibility issue, the file-parsing algorithms are not perfect, and so it is important that the configuration file is properly written. This can be achieved through the use of the software described in Chapter 4.