JavaScript is a good candidate for interface improvements. JavaScript is currently Netscape specific. The endlessly scolling ticker can be annoying to some people. The ticker can jerk instead of scroll smoothly across the screen. URL's can be hard or impossible to see under the scrolling text.
Applets can be buggy, most run out of memory if the page is left up too long.
JavaScript applets are limited by its built-in security. Chris Skinner, V.P. of Web Integration Systems , and author of the original scrolling JavaScript ticker, has solved the memory and URL display problems. We recently received a message from one of the top five sites on the Internet urging us to kill the JavaScript ticker, saying it's very annoying. This caused us to wonder. We want to hear from you because we care.