Applets have failed because they are resource hogs, and because it takes too much time to download the JRE.
I am a Java programmer, yet I'm not happy when I find a page that uses applets, because there is a quite noticeable lag (even if I already have a java IDE up and I'm using Java 5), and because the java runtime will stay loaded and suck memory even when I left the pages using applets.
I keep an eye on the system tray, if the java icon appears, I close all of the firefox windows and restart it, otherwise I keep the browser open all the day... |
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