Could Java applets modify the DOM? Were they nicely integrated with the Browser interface? Did they come bundled within the browser for easier installation and

Could Java applets modify the DOM? Were they nicely integrated with the Browser interface? Did they come bundled within the browser for easier installation and upgrades by their users? Sure there's some parallels, but don't pretend industry ditched Java applets due to ignorance. Javascript in the browser, for 99% of web applications, provides a much better user experience. The developer experience we could argue here, but I'd say nowadays developing client side JS (or TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Haxe etc.) isn't that bad. The tooling is great and there's if anything, too many frameworks to choose from (competition is good!). The same arguments apply for Flash, really. Flash integrated slightly better with browsers at the expense of being a resource hog.