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Java is slow and ugly to start up the first time. It's not silent and fast like Flash. It needs to stay out of the way of the user experience of the applet. And it just doesn't.
And sometimes it gets worse. Not to say it's Sun's fault. I don't know. But in Firefox on my Mac, once an applet shows, it kills the use of my scroll wheel in Firefox until I restart the browser. So I've disabled applets there.
And in Windows with VirusScan running, the first time starting up any particular VM grinds the machine to a halt for 20 seconds or so.
So even the best case experience is less than ideal, and there are so many ugly quirks in the bad cases. I wouldn't dream of subjecting users to this kind of torture.
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