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by flohofwoe 1922 days ago
Confusing title, because Java Applets are already dead since around 2015 when Google and Microsoft removed NPAPI support from their browsers (and Firefox followed in 2018).

This news is just about the removal of some leftover applet-related APIs in the JDK, hardly news-worthy IMHO because you couldn't do anything useful with those APIs anyway for quite a while.
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2OEH8eoCRo0 1922 days ago
The user interface of my current (still in development) project uses Java Applets and Internet Explorer.

It blows my mind they're still full speed ahead on this stuff when it's been deprecated for over 5 years.

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commandlinefan 1922 days ago
My first thought when I read the title was that it will be 20 years before even 80% of Java users upgrade to the version of Java that doesn't support Applets.
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maxerickson 1922 days ago
IE is still available as an Edge add on, it will never die.
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kevin_thibedeau 1922 days ago
Pretty clear indication you're on a sinking ship with a blind captain.
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panzagl 1922 days ago
If I had to guess I'd say your project is either a control panel for some sort of network-attached device (e.g. a NAS or UPS) or else the configuration manager for a server blade chassis. I could paper a wall with the number of IA waivers I've had to get to keep some ancient browser/java/flash version around so I could access some config thingy to hardware we bought years ago...
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