Interesting thought experiment. However, you have to realize that Sun wasn’t a charity. At the time, platform vendors were were hoping to target intranet applic

Interesting thought experiment. However, you have to realize that Sun wasn’t a charity. At the time, platform vendors were were hoping to target intranet applications for the enterprise. Microsoft had a similar concept for trusted applications with IE’s “Active Scripting”, with very similar results in terms of (non)security.