After having trouble getting al_version working I looked in the source code for AppletLoader and found this (line 735):
734 // compare to new version
735 if (latestVersion != readVersionFile(versionFile)) {
736 versionAvailable = true;
737 percentage = 90;
738
739 if(debugMode) {
740 System.out.println("Loading Cached Applet Version " + latestVersion);
741 }
742 debug_sleep(2000);
743 }
Shouldn't that be:
latestVersion == readVersionFile(versionFile) ?
-pjoe