It was quite a direct and ergonomic interface iirc. The magic term was LiveConnect, do I googled that and got to this amazing piece of history: https://www.orac

It was quite a direct and ergonomic interface iirc. The magic term was LiveConnect, do I googled that and got to this amazing piece of history: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/liveconnect-docs.html https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/liveconnect-... The first example is quite illustrative I think. You’d call custom methods on a Java applet the way you call DOM methods on a div.