Re: [BioTapestry-users] Digest for biotapestry-users@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

[Hamid Bolouri]

hilarious!

Glad your HTML5 Canvas version is coming.

Hamid

On 4/8/14, biotapes...@googlegroups.com
<biotapes...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> - Forcing Mac Mavericks to Launch a Viewer [1 Update]
> http://groups.google.com/group/biotapestry-users/t/219b20a7f8a8bd9f
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> Topic: Forcing Mac Mavericks to Launch a Viewer
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/biotapestry-users/t/219b20a7f8a8bd9f
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> From: Bill Longabaugh <wlong...@systemsbiology.org>
> Date: Apr 07 06:17PM -0700
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/biotapestry-users/msg/e81bc75c9a45e345
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> Apple (and Oracle) are making it increasingly difficult to launch the Java
> WebStart BioTapestry Viewer, such as the one that is used to share the
> online sea urchin endomesoderm model
> (http://sugp.caltech.edu/endomes/index.html). It turns out that as of patch
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> 51 of Java 7 a few months ago, the sandboxed Viewer application (i.e. it
> does not ask for any special security privileges) needs to be signed with a
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> security certificate anyway to get it launched with the minimum of hassles.
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> So the sea urchin viewer has been signed, and it works well on Linux and
> Windows. However, Apple has decided that unless you buy a signing
> certificate from them, they will not allow your application to cleanly
> launch without jumping through some obscure hoops, unless you take the
> unwise step of reducing the security level. So this posting shows that
> sequence of hoops.
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> You can still launch the signed viewer with relative ease, as long as you
> first launch "System Preferences", and then choose the Security and Privacy
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> Panel. Then, as the attached sequence of screen shots show (going 1-4), you
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> can click on the BioTapestry launch link, then acknowledge that you will
> not be allowed to run it (Pic 1). But as soon as you click on the OK, the
> Security and Privacy panel will pop up a message that gives you the
> opportunity to open it anyway (Pic 2). Click on that button, then
> acknowledge the usual warning about internet applications (Pic 3), and the
> Viewer will launch (Pic 4).
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> This hassle will go away when we finish BioTapestry Version 7, which will
> support a browser-only HTML5 Canvas version of the Viewer. Until then,
> there is this workaround.
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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