From the first hit: "Java applets may need to perform Java to JavaScript communication to access the Document Object Model (DOM)..." So it seems that it is har

From the first hit: "Java applets may need to perform Java to JavaScript communication to access the Document Object Model (DOM)..." So it seems that it is hardly an alternative. > ...or is every link on the first SERP wrong in some way? What I don't expect to find quickly is exactly how long this has been possible in which browsers since when. Was it possible back in the days of IE4 and Netscape 4 or 4.5 or whatever it was?