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Qu0ll wrote:
>I know almost nothing about applets so please excuse the possible lameness 
>of this question.

Applets are not for noobs.  You are better off looking to a web 
start launched JFrame (which is automatically resizable), or
the same launch for an applet (though that requires a bit
of hackish tweaking, to make it resizable in the applet viewer).

>Can someone tell me if it's possible for an applet to adjust its size (i.e. 
>the amount of the web page it takes up) when the size of the web page itself 
>changes?  

Yes, no, maybe.  Depends on the browser/VM combo.

1) You might look to JavaScript to check the page size
regularly, and then resize the applet accordingly. 
Obviously that will fail if JS is disabled.

2) Use a combination of HTML and CSS and 'hope for 
the best'.  Here are my best experiments.
<http://www.physci.org/test/resize/>

>...port my Swing applications to the web (and yes I 
> know about JNLP which is not what I am looking for).

Applets and Swing embedded in web pages.
'Welcome to a world of trouble'.

Why does web start *not* provide what these applications
need?  There are a very few applets that rely of interaction
with JS that simply *cannot* be run using web start, but
very little else prevents a web start launch, and something 
coming from being a desktop application is unlikely to
rely on use of javascript.

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  Re: Applets automatically "Andrew Thompson" <andrew.thompson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
    Re: Applets automatically "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
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    Re: Applets automatically "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
      Re: Applets automatically "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
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          Re: Applets automatically "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
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    Re: Applets automatically "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:38 +0000
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