FedEx will give you $5 to reinstall Flash

> for comparison, there's a story on page 3 with 33 points, 22 hours ago)...

The ranking algo might be a bit more sophisticated.

You can't just compare points because flags don't affect points while they do affect ranking.

Lots of government websites in Spain, for instance.

There is the older stuff on http://dan-ball.jp/en/ but most of everything there has been ported over to javascript

Don't know about the original poster, but there are still a ton of crappy managed switches/APs/other embedded devices that use Java applets for configuration in operation.

In a past life, I had to keep two different browser installs, each with a different JVM version in obsolete browsers, aside from my "real" browser to deal with crap like that.

Those are probably ancient corporate tools, either made in-house or by some 3rd party that won't update to newer technology without enough of a monetary incentive.

I guess digital signature, mostly. Signing documents without your private key leaving the computer. It's not something you can do easily cross-browser.

One example: website which uses USB crypto tokens for digital signatures. In Kazakhstan (and, I guess, many other countries) every citizen can get digital certificate, signed by government CA and use it to sign electronic documents. It's used for many government internet services, for example. But there's no API even in modern browsers, to work with USB devices, so Java applet is one way to do it.

That said, Java applets are effectively dead, so government services now require installing and running separate program which listens at localhost for connections from browser. Honestly, it doesn't look like a big win for me, more like a big loose, from a security point. But here we go.

Ubiquiti uses Java I think.

Sadly, we have some annual mandatory web-based training modules that use web applets in my workplace.

I just had to help someone enable Java applets earlier this week, in order to take an online typing test required by a temp agency. At some companies, it seems the 1990's never stopped happening. :/

Some ADP applications. A lot of enterprise-y time-clock/PTO applications in general. Other enterprise-y bullshit.

Education. A lot of science simulations I would use for my classes are Java Applets. Also the equation editor I have to use for creating tests (yes it's web based...) is a java applet.

It's a total nightmare because most of it is abandonware or is still for sale but unmaintained!

We're always happy to talk about personal experiences removing Java and never regretting it.

I've been through multiple attempts at doing it in an enterprise, one in January this year, and it always ends with the determination that Java applets are critical to websites used by the business and not going anywhere. Healthcare portals are a big offender.

Yes, this is precisely why Chrome's current behavior is awful. It's forcing me to set Flash to "Run Always", which is a security and privacy problem, simply because one site I use opens .swf files in new windows instead of embedding them in HTML pages.

No, they really aren't. If a site opens a .swf file in a new window, Chrome should behave exactly as though it opened an HTML page that embedded the SWF, i.e. letting me approve it, and playing it if I've whitelisted the domain. Instead it will always download the SWF if you have your Flash content settings set to anything else besides Run Always. It's really stupid and it means I have to keep Flash enabled globally (which I really don't want to do) simply because Google doesn't care enough to handle edge cases properly.