The version incompatibilities are a large part of why I respect Sun's commitment to backward compatibility. Even when it means that I can't use things like gene

The version incompatibilities are a large part of why I respect Sun's commitment to backward compatibility. Even when it means that I can't use things like generics, that backwards compatibility also means that I can use the same applet for almost all browsers made in the past 10 years. Of course, you can't write a browser plugin in Java too easily...