Applets 2.0: Java & Flash Support in Browsers

August 29th, 2004 Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.

October 22nd, 2007 Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

July 12th, 2005 I just read a post titled - Java Applets = Stupid Design. The actual contention was - My example would have been web pages that are written entirely as Java applets.

February 12th, 2004 Challenge: Resizing applet from within Java code. For example say the applet code calculates that the applet needs more space than it has been allocated, then how to go about it? Last time when faced with this problem I solved it with a nifty piece of Javascript method.

December 7th, 2005 Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

March 6th, 2006 Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

November 29th, 2005 No questions. Previously I wasn't sure if it worked as the site was bogged down by heavy traffic.

April 16th, 2006 The most annoying thing about web these days is the prevalence of Macromedia Flash based eye candies and advertisement. Not only they are an irritating visual distraction (in most cases), they also consume way too much CPU.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

January 26th, 2006 I have seen way too many java frameworks, way beyond my limits of tolerance. And I have found a perfect solution.

February 10th, 2005 My blog readers prefer Mozilla based browsers, which is used by 51.21%. IE is lagging behind at 39.08%! On the other hand my readers prefer Windows with Windows XP alone accounting for 51.48%.

March 12th, 2008 A nice video on Java showing the ubiquitousness of Java. Now read on to deflate your ego before it bursts.

May 6th, 2008 The key features of Java EE 6 (Java Enterprise Edition version 6) are: Modular Platform - Java EE 6 introduces profiles targeted for particular segment of users like web developers or mobile developers. Java Profiles allows you to select Java EE 6 features to be included in a profile.