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How To Add Java Applets To Your Web Page With The Object & Param Tags

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I don't mean to snark, but with this, and IBM's developer community site making the front page, is someone gaming the system here? Correct usage of HTML tags to embed java applets? Seriously? :-/

Answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=codenique

That's not really the answer I was looking for, I realized it was the submitter's own site.

I'm wondering how all these sub-par sites are making the front page. I'm just waiting for one of those links to google's homepage that the spammers use makes it to the front page.

Your opinion really means a lot coming from a sub-par user who does not know how to read the topic title. And is it really against the rules to submit tutorials from a site. And just because the tutorial did not help you does not mean it did not help the other countless users, but your comments are what anyone can expect from a sub-par user who's job is to hate so keep on hating sub-par.

Peter Kofler's Applet test pages have been an invaluable resource in the past when I had to debug client issues with Java Plug-in (Java Web Start fixes many of the client issues)

http://kofler.dot.at/browsersupport/applet.html

This is relevant to me because I've been playing with Processing (the Java version). (I have also been playing with the JavaScript version, but it is MUCH slower, which kind of limits the speed of my physics simulations. Interestingly, Safari runs Processing.js much better than FireFox.)

The only time I am personally interested in java applets anymore is when looking at physics demos from 1999 from MIT or Stanford engineering students. That's it.

The one modern site that I find Java applets incredibly useful and fun is Wowhead's model viewer [1]. They have a Flash and Java version, and while the Flash is faster to load, the quality and performance of the Java version can't be beat.

[1] http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45472#modelviewer

I was looking to embed a Lucene based search for offline text search of a CD of static HTML/PDFs. I wanted it to be able to run the same search as our server ran. Applets were the best option there.

But, you are right in that they're pointless as UI elements.

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