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[Paweł Gesek <>]

I believe it should be possible to implement the protocol with the HTML5 
WebSocket api. At this moment however it would work only on newer 
browsers, and as far as I am aware some of them turn this feature off by 
default due to security holes.

Regards,
Paweł

On 10/11/2013 02:50 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Paweł,
>
> Long term, it would be nice to get rid of the Applet-dependence. Doing so 
> would require implementing the NDT protocol in javascript, which may be 
> non-trivial since it's not an HTTP-based protocol. I think the HTML 5 
> frontend uses the Applet under-the-hood.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:48 AM, Paweł Gesek 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a question regarding NDT client applications. I've noticed that in the 
> > trunk, apart from the applet, we also have an HTML-5 client, which uses 
> > jquery for it's UI. Is the general idea to deprecate the applet UI with this 
> > HTML-5 frontend?
> >
> > Second question - is the HTML-5 frontend in a working state? From what I 
> > tested, it would seem it's not fully operational. After choosing to begin 
> > tests, I would get to a test screen, but nothing would happen afterwards. I 
> > also had to restart the browser to get to that point again(applet issue?). I 
> > tested both on Chrome and Firefox.
> >
> > Third question - looking at the code it seems that javascript actually uses 
> > the applet underneath for running tests. Are there plans to move the core 
> > testing functionality to javascript, so that it can run on its own without a 
> > java applet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paweł