From my experience, Java applets are slow. The loading time to load the actual JVM is a pain. Because of that I haven't installed Java in many years. If I come

From my experience, Java applets are slow. The loading time to load the actual JVM is a pain. Because of that I haven't installed Java in many years. If I come to a site that asks me to install Java, I just go to another site. There's your portability problem.