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There’s a crucial difference though. Applets required you to download and install the JVM, and it was never part of web standards. Wasm is a w3c standard and bu

There’s a crucial difference though. Applets required you to download and install the JVM, and it was never part of web standards. Wasm is a w3c standard and built into browsers. But I see the similarity in terms of compiling your software down to another (supposedly universal, we’ll see) intermediate instruction set.

pjmlp 4y ago
Not really, via Java Web Start and Java kernel projects it was possible to have a similar Flash like experience, naturally the Web site had to adopt them.