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Yes, they were a really big deal at the time, before security concerns came along and sunk them.
by mtrower 4y ago
Yes, they were a really big deal at the time, before security concerns came along and sunk them.
- kaba0 4y agoThere was nothing inherently unsafe about Java Applets that could not have been fixed, security was simply not that important in the era for browsers.
- sangnoir 4y agoBrowsers didn't even have sandboxes then: fixing would have taken decades, and we still get sandbox escape vulns.
- 72deluxe 4y agoI remember applets being used for roll-over buttons on web pages and always knowing that an applet was being used because Internet Explorer 4 hung when loading the page, waiting for the JVM to fire up (with much disk churning). Kind of nostalgic for it!