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Re: Netscape Interference

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Tue Jan 9 22:23:49 1996

Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:22:06 -0800
From: Jonathan Payne <jpayne@starwave.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com

Michael Afergan wrote:
> 
>         I have recently discovered that moving the mouse within a HTML page,
> but outside of a Java applet seems to cause a chopiness in the applet.  (Of
> course this only happens in Netscape because you cannot go outside the applet
> in the appletviewer.)  I have also noticed this problem in virtually every
> applet on the web.
>         My guess is that it invokes update(), but am not sure.  I have tried
> creating a dummy event handler, but to no avail.
>         Does anyone know what is going on, why, and how to stop it?
> 
>         -- Mike
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I think it's just eating the mouse events and doing a lot of
processing when you drag the mouse which is taking away from the
cycles that are allocated to the Applet.
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