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

I realized that several applet functionalities are not supported by either Mozilla or Firefox browsers. In fact Internet Explorer seems to have the best support for Java applets!

Note: I have jdk1.5 plugin. The applets were deployed using the applet tag. However switching to object and embed tags didn't help either.

Your input is appreciated.

What doesn't work.

Mozilla 1.1a

  • resize()
  • showDocument()
  • showStatus()

FireFox 0.9.1

  • resize()
  • showStatus()

Internet Explorer 6.0

  • resize()

I had posted a solution for the applet resize problem in an earlier blog entry.