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This was deliberate - they were afraid Java would become too popular on the browser side and people would stop buying their heavyweight servers. They always pus

This was deliberate - they were afraid Java would become too popular on the browser side and people would stop buying their heavyweight servers. They always pushed Java as the server side language. If they wanted Java at the client side - they wanted pure Java clients (webstart, etc) not browsers hosting Java applets. Browsers hosting Java applets were sneered upon. JS eventually won the game here after IE advanced Web 1.0 with great support for AJAX, etc. The funny thing is that if Sun was on the ball and didn't abandon HotJava, your modern day browser would have been a Java app.

pram 6y ago
Yeah I dunno about that. HotJava was aggressively awful to use.
- AndrewStephens 6y ago
  I agree. One of the many, many, many areas where Sun dropped the ball was the failure to implement a good HTML control in Java. HotJava was very basic.
anthk 6y ago
>your modern day browser would have been a Java app. Not so distant to J2ME browsers like Opera Mini, and today with Android I am not sure. Chrome is C++, but on Android everything gets blurred.