> From what I remember, the Java VM took around a minute to start the first time you opened any page with a Java applet, and it locked the whole browser while i

> From what I remember, the Java VM took around a minute to start the first time you opened any page with a Java applet, and it locked the whole browser while it started. Compared to that, Javascript loaded instantly. Also keep in mind that much less was done in Javascript back then, so even though it was interpreted, it didn't feel that slow. I don't remember this. Probably its very early days at most.