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by graemep 144 days ago
> Java applets were removed from the browsers due to issues being found regularly

Java applets were killed off my MS's attempt at "embrace, extent, extinguish" by bundling an incompatible version of Java with IE, and Sun's legal response to this.
2 comments
whywhywhywhy 144 days ago
They never worked nice and always felt slow, unreliable and janky at the time. It’s easy to blame MS but no one was sad to see the back of them.
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graemep 144 days ago
I was fine with the few I used, and Java works much better on the hardware we now have. A lot better than a lot of cross platform things we have now.
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vbezhenar 144 days ago
No, Microsoft has nothing to do with it. Browsers are controlled by Google and Mozilla and they decided to block Java plugin.
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