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Re:Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-... by Asooka on Saturday May 06, 2017 @05:52PM (#14282465)
Note: that only works in Internet Explorer (not Edge, of course), since all other browsers have disabled support for NPAPI plugins, including Java. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement a JVM in JavaScript that's good enough to run simple applets like this, but sadly nobody is doing it.
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Re:Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-... by theoh on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:09PM (#14282787)
Yes, I guess you can, alternatively, still download a JRE with an "appletviewer" app.
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Re:Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-... by Asooka on Sunday May 07, 2017 @04:32AM (#14284456)
How can you run an embedded applet in an external viewer? Also, how is that more secure than just running it in the browser?
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Re:Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-... by theoh on Sunday May 07, 2017 @08:48AM (#14285189)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppletViewer

"The applet viewer operates on HTML documents, but all it looks for is embedded applet tags; any other HTML code in the document is ignored. Each time the applet viewer encounters an applet tag in an HTML document, it launches a separate applet viewer window containing the respective applet."

As far as security goes, I don't think appletviewer claims to be more secure that the browser. It has a similar security policy/sandbox.

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