I am not promoting Java over HTML. But existing and becoming entrenched as a worldwide standard many years in advance is a huge advantage for HTML over Java th

I am not promoting Java over HTML. But existing and becoming entrenched as a worldwide standard many years in advance is a huge advantage for HTML over Java that isn't relevant to considerations of redesigning the Internet. So that would be a very big reason Java "lost" a major part of the battle it never showed up to. Very difficult bar to replace a platform so pervasive as HTML after the fact.