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There was - it was called LiveConnect - but like most things to do with Java and the browser(s), it languished in a half-supported state, and really isn't worth

• stingraycharles 12y ago
  Don't forget about websites from academia that implement certain proof-of-concepts; for some reason that commumity still keeps using applets.
  • exprE 12y ago
    There are quite a few applets demonstrating chemical reactions/bonds or physical equations etc., and as such applets are relatively common in teaching materials for high school (/secondary education) physics and chemistry, at least with teachers (I had or) I have substituted. They are obviously years old and rarely signed, which is a shame because quite often there are plenty of demos, none of which I can run with modern default settings of a PC (and sometimes I wouldn't have enough credentials to do anything about it, anyway).
  • wbillingsley 12y ago
    We used to do it because dealing with cross-browser compatibility was a pain. For instance, I used to use a 1-pixel applet instead of XMLHttpRequest for AJAX (slightly before they coined the term "AJAX") and applets for rendering live-updated XML-based diagrams (instead of SVG) in both cases because it simply made things less buggy and less of a pain to support at the time. But that was in 2004 to 2007. But once we've written something, and it works, we're often a little slow updating it to newer tech, because we can't write a paper out of "the same thing I published earlier, but now using SVG and XHR instead of applets". If it still just-about works, there's less impetus to rewrite it.