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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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