Unfortunately, they're also an idea that's been thoroughly trashed ever since Internet Explorer and Windows95 debuted. Everyone who's had to do a full reboot because of this problem has both Microsoft and Netscape to thank for it. J ava applets have steadily disappeared from all the Net's biggest sites ever since this problem began in 1997. From IE 5.x onwards, Microsoft promised to adhere to common Web standards with its browser. But given how long it takes people to upgrade their browsers, you can't really expect this to occur before mid-2001 .
Most applets also accept parameters .
These are settings that allow you to control such things as height, width, colour and so forth. You don't need to be a programmer or a technical guru to use them. But they do impact on page download speeds. Riada Riada are a small software company in Sydney, Australia who began operating in October 1996 when founder Dan Adair decided to reverse his surname and start a business producing drop-dead simple Java solutions for web authors. OpenCube are commercial Java applet developers who produce a large range of industry-standard applets and make many of them available on their site as either freeware or trialware.