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Before Ajax one way to do Web 2.0 style interactions was to hide a Java applet in an invisible iFrame and feed data back and forth from the page using JavaScrip
by ahlschwede 6y ago
Before Ajax one way to do Web 2.0 style interactions was to hide a Java applet in an invisible iFrame and feed data back and forth from the page using JavaScript.
I think people forget that the early web had a proliferation of plug-ins. JavaScript was most often used as glue between HTML and plug-ins which had fewer platform incompatibilities than the browsers. One of the reasons Flash became the dominant plug-in was because it was universal enough to duplicate the features of other plug-ins, including asynchronous communication via Java applet.
- moron4hire 6y agoIFrames were invented later (and initially, only in IE). You also didn't ever need to put the applet in a separate frame. You could just put the applet on the page. Indeed, putting it in a frame would have defeated the purpose, because there was no way to communicate across frames at the time.