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Re:How To Add Java Applets To Your Web Page With The Object ... by geuis on Thursday April 30, 2009 @02:36PM (#587222)
The only time I am personally interested in java applets anymore is when looking at physics demos from 1999 from MIT or Stanford engineering students. That's it.
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Re:How To Add Java Applets To Your Web Page With The Object ... by teej on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:05PM (#587277)
The one modern site that I find Java applets incredibly useful and fun is Wowhead's model viewer [1]. They have a Flash and Java version, and while the Flash is faster to load, the quality and performance of the Java version can't be beat.

[1] http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45472#modelviewer

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Re:How To Add Java Applets To Your Web Page With The Object ... by AndrewO on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:20PM (#587561)
I was looking to embed a Lucene based search for offline text search of a CD of static HTML/PDFs. I wanted it to be able to run the same search as our server ran. Applets were the best option there.

But, you are right in that they're pointless as UI elements.

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