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Applets are not interesting because they are treated the same as plugins, i.e. a square in the page in a separate world from the rest of the real web application. If instead applets gave you full access to the DOM of the page like JavaScript has you could write some very interesting applets that would crush existing AJAX applications like bugs. This would also solve the UI problem that applets have and make them seemless with the rest of the page -- because they would just generate HTML... |
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