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Applets - Phased out in the near future?

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Kondwani Mkandawire

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Nickname: spike
Registered: Aug, 2004

Applets - Phased out in the near future? Posted: Jun 23, 2005 8:34 AM
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Hi Folks:

Just wanted ya'll guys take on this. I was scratching
out a Swing Applet (hoping to use it in my Mozilla
Browser). After hours of coding, I find that Mozilla
(well atleast on the machine I'm using) din't have
the Java Plugins installed by default. I hence could
only test it via appletviewer.

Furthermore applet capabilities also seem to extremely
restricted (cannot access the local file system).

With further investigation (as I was looking for
the <applet> tag attribute), I came to learn that
the <applet> tag is being phased out by the chaps
at w3 in HTML 4.

ref: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_applet.asp

Does this mean Browser vendors will be moving away
from supporting applets 5 years down the line?

Do we still see ourselves still crunching away at
applet code to be embedded in our webpages in the
next 5 years?

Anyways, just a thought to share. I should probably
get back to hacking away at that applet before
I get fired!!

Spike


Matthias Neumair

Posts: 660
Nickname: neumi
Registered: Sep, 2003

Re: Applets - Phased out in the near future? Posted: Jun 24, 2005 2:32 AM
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Of course you don't have full access to the local file system.
That would be a serious security issue.

The tag has not bee n 'removed', but replaced.
I never worked with homepages, so I don't remember the new tag. I think it is 'script' or something.
Fact is, that earlier html version used both tags, now it has been reduce to one tag since both tags do more or less the same.
However every new html version still supports the old tag for backward compatibility.

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