Having the capability of loading applets is, I consider, not to be the same as popularity of applets. I am unable to produce any citation that talks about popul

Having the capability of loading applets is, I consider, not to be the same as popularity of applets. I am unable to produce any citation that talks about popularity of applets except this SO thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51390/where-did-all-the-java-applets-go http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51390/where-did-all-the-j... But the lack of applets is pretty apparent to me. I come across Flash almost hourly while my last few encounters with Java Applets were academic demos 2 years back.