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Java could have worked fine in the browser. All feature phones (which are/were almost universally less powerful than a desktop PC) were able to run Java ME appl

by bjbXXX 10y ago

Java could have worked fine in the browser. All feature phones (which are/were almost universally less powerful than a desktop PC) were able to run Java ME applications just fine. My memory from the mid/late nineties is that Microsoft wanted to balkanise Java with J++ (or was it J# ?) and got into a big argument with Sun, and because of this and the fact they eventually came to own the browser market there was no way they'd embed a JVM in the browser.

tannhaeuser 10y ago
Ironically, MS browsers remain the only ones to support Applets today.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  EDGE does not.
- kbutler 10y ago
  firefox extended support release has NPAPI support for another year: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0esr/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0esr/releasenotes/
douche 10y ago
Sun/Oracle also took about a five year hiatus after Java 6, and let the platform languish during a critical period.